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Overview
Oracle Alta UI cloud services feature a few ubiquitous elements and behaviors. The Application Navigation is one of the most distinctive appearance features of an Oracle Alta UI service. The most distinctive behavioral aspects of an Oracle Alta UI are data persistence and UI state persistence. The level of data persistence and UI state persistence in an Oracle Alta UI application is a design choice. The presence or absence of Application Navigation is governed by the application profile. There are several application profiles.
There are many more aspects of an application than these, but the few discussed here are highlights and span the entire Oracle Alta application UX. For example, an application may present a ubiquitous search capability although search is not a necessary Oracle Alta UI aspect, even though it may be desirable. An Oracle Alta UI application will feature these essential UX aspects: the Branding Area , application profile, data persistence, and a save model.
Application Profiles
An application profile refers to the number of modules within the application. A module contains the primary task(s) users perform with the application, which can range from a single function (for example, a request for vacation or personal holiday time) to a suite of integrated functions (for example, identity administration).
The Application Navigation provides navigation access to major modules within the application. It appears within the Branding Area.
The basic heuristic that guides the presence and format of the Application Navigation is the number of application modules.
| Major or Suite application modules: 3+ | Single feature or Simple application modules: 1-2 | |
| PRESENT | Yes | No |
| FORMAT | Branding Area with Application Navigation | Branding Area only |
Single-feature Applications
A single-feature application has a limited number of capabilities that are focused on a single, user task. It is a small application that presents a single flow (such as a request for personal leave, or a change in tax withholding). By definition, this is a single module application.
Single-feature applications have a linear feel to the user, and present a clear entry and exit. This may be presented as a single page, wherein the user types or selects parameters and exits by saving the page. It may present a sequential, step-by-step UI (for example, a wizard). This type of application is limited in scope and should present the simplest possible UI.
The following image is an example of a step-by-step UI for a single-feature application.
Simple Applications
A simple Oracle Alta UI application presents the simplest possible UI, which focuses on a small number of user tasks, and presents a limited number of options. The application has one module, which may have two or more major features represented as navigation options. It presents clear navigation paths, such as in the example shown below.
Major Applications
A major application has two or more modules. If there are only two modules, these are presented by extending the one-module UI. Use Application Navigation to present three or more major modules to the user. Once an application navigation item is selected, a page within that module is presented to the user.
Following is an example of a major application with a Tasks and a Projects Module.
The following image shows an example of an Application Navigation Bar for a major application with four modules: Home, Tasks, Applications, and Environments.
If the Application UX is better served by presenting three modules without the use of an Application Navigation Bar or Drawer, the Oracle Alta UI provides the flexibility to do so. For example, modules may be presented to the user by extending the simple application UI.
Don't cause the user to perform excessive vertical scrolling to see the result of a navigation option. This an be accomplished by not having the navigation options exceed a height of 740px, including the Branding Area.
The following image shows an example of a major application with four modules presented by extending the simple application UX.
Suite Applications
A suite application has three or more major modules, and each major module could be a major application. Application Navigation may present three or more major modules to the user.
Once an application navigation item is selected by the user, a page within that major module is presented to the user.
Following is an example of a suite application with four major modules: Home, Tasks, Applications, and Environments. Major modules can have sub-modules. In the following example, Tasks and Projects, are sub-modules of Tasks.
