About PageLayout and its Named Children

The pageLayout component and its named children organize content on an ADF UIX page. The main areas in a page are: (1) branding, (2) navigation, (3) global buttons, (4) page content, and (5) footer, as shown in the following illustration.

Main page layout areas

Note: The footer is automatically created by pageLayout. Additional information can be inserted in the footer using about, copyright, and privacy.

The attributes you can set for pageLayout are:

title - Displays a title for the UIX page.
chromeType - Specifies where productBranding will be shown in relation to corporateBranding. Supported values are: compact or expanded. If set to compact (default), productBranding will be shown alongside corporateBranding. If set to expanded, productBranding will be shown below corporateBranding. You cannot have inContextBranding in the expanded mode. If you include inContextBranding, then productBranding automatically renders next to the corporateBranding.
inlineStyle - Specifies the inline CSS style to use.
messageType - Specifies if a page is a messaging dialog. Optional values are: error, info, warning, confirmation, processing, and none (default). The appropriate icon and header will display at the top of the page.
quickLinksShown - Specifies if text links to each header in a page (except the top header) should be displayed. These text links are called quick links, which display horizontally above the page title. Default is false.

The named children of pageLayout that support the building of a page layout and its contents are:

about - Creates an area below the copyright region in the page footer. Use to add a link to more information about the application.
cobranding - Creates a cobranding region in the page header. Use to add a small image of the associated company's logo.
contextSwitcher - Context switcher of a page. Not supported on the following agent types: pda, phone, voice. A context switcher lets the user change the contents of the page based on the context. For example, when a user is viewing assets for the accounting department, the user can use the context switcher to switch from viewing the accounting department assets to the marketing department assets. All the pages will then change to the marketing context.
copyright - Creates an area at one end of the page footer for a link to the company's copyright statement. See also privacy.
corporateBranding - Creates a corporate branding region in the page header. Use to add a medium size image of the logo of the company that owns the page.
end - Create the end column region, which usually contains the contentContainer component that is used to place ancillary information on a page with a different background color.
footnote - Creates an area at the bottom of the page (above the footer) for page-level status information that is ancillary to the user's task. See also pageStatus.
globalButtons - Creates an area for the global button bar, which organizes a set of global buttons and an optional application switcher.
inContextBranding - Creates an area below corporateBranding. When inContextBranding is on the page with productBranding in expanded mode, then the productBranding area moves up to the side of the corporateBranding area. See attribute chromeType. See also the productBranding component.
largeAdvertisement - One of five branding and advertising regions. Creates a large advertisement region in the page header. Use to add a large advertisement image with a link to more information. See also mediumAdvertisement, cobranding, corporateBranding, and productBranding.
location - Creates an area above the page title for a train or breadCrumbs component.
mediumAdvertisement - One of five branding and advertising regions. Creates a medium advertisement region in the page header. Use to add a medium advertisement image with a link to more information. See also largeAdvertisement, cobranding, corporateBranding, and productBranding.
messages - Creates an area below the page title for messages. Use to add the messageBox component to display a shaded boxed area for error, warning, confirmation, or informational messages.
pageButtons - Creates a page navigation region below the page title (and repeated above the page footer), where a pageButtonBar (for page action buttons) or navigationBar (for step-by-step or record navigator) is used, or both.
pageHeader - Creates a region below the page tabs, where a globalHeader is placed.
pageStatus - Creates a page-level status region immediately below the page title, where page-level instruction text that is important to the user's task is placed. This region can also contain a key notation, which is a legend used to define icons, elements, or terms used within the page content, including the blue asterisk to indicate required fields.
privacy - Creates an area at one end of the page footer for a link to the company's privacy statement. See also copyright.
productBranding - Creates a product branding region in the page header. In expanded mode, usually use to add an image of the company's product logo below corporateBranding. In compact mode, usually use to add formatted text. See the productBranding component.
quickSearch - Creates a quick search region above the page title. Use to add a search text input field and submit button.
returnNavigation - Creates a "Return to [X]" link at the bottom of the page.
start - Creates a start column region, which usually contains the sideBar component.
tabs - Creates a region for tabs. Contains the tabBar component.
userInfo - Creates a user information region above the page title, where user login and connection information are placed.

Note: contentFooter is deprecated. Use pageButtons and returnNavigation instead.