Oracle APEX - Moving multiple pages to a new App

Question

Running the current version of Oracle APEX. Looking for best practices / sanity check for extracting/moving a “module” to a new app.

I have an app in a Workspace. This app has around 70 pages, 5 of which go to a specific "module" / functionality. I want to extract/move this module to a new/not yet created app within the same workspace. This new application WILL need it's own administration page. Never having done this before, I want to make sure I get this right. Because of the amount of Javascript involved, I need to keep the page numbers the same. There are no private reports, only public reports.

Expected steps:

1). Create a new app in the same workspace, with Administration page

2). Do I export the whole app, and only import those pages I am wanting? (Is this even supported?). Do I have to export page at a time, etc. then import?

3). Update user access on the Administration page.

4). Update menu structure

What is the best/proper approach to do this?

Answer 1

I'd probably

• export current application
• import it (either choose new ID, or let Apex set it)
• new application should work just the same as the original
• remove all pages you don't need
  • in App Builder, click the "Utilities" icon
  • on the right hand side of the screen, under "Page Specific Utilities", choose "Cross Page Utilities"
  • choose "Delete multiple pages"
  • mark checkbox for pages you don't need
  • click "Delete pages" button
• run the application
• check how it looks and - if necessary - fix whatever might be needed