About Shortcut Types

When you create a new shortcut, you must specify the type of shortcut you want to create. Oracle Application Express supports the following shortcut types:

PL/SQL Function Body
HTML Text
HTML Text with Escaped Special Characters
Image
Text with JavaScript Escaped Single Quotes
Message
Message with JavaScript Escaped Special Quotes

Text with JavaScript Escaped Single Quotes

Use this type of shortcut to reference a shortcut inside of a JavaScript literal string. This shortcut defines a text string. When the shortcut is referenced, it escapes the single quotation marks required for JavaScript.

Message

Use this type of shortcut to reference a translatable message at run time. Note that since this shortcut does not have a shortcut body, the name of the shortcut must match the corresponding message name. At run time, the name of the shortcut expands to the text of the translatable message for the current language.

Message with JavaScript Escaped Single Quotes

Use this type of shortcut to reference a shortcut inside of JavaScript literal string and reference a translatable message at run time.