Patrick Wolf blogged about a new feature of APEX 3.1 called Region Attributes. I remember trying to get this in to HTML DB 1.6, back when I was the Product Manager in 2003! Basically, this feature enables you to specify a parameter at the region level which, in turn, will be placed where the #REGION_ATTRIBUTE# tag is located in the template itself. This feature will definitely cut down on the number of templates required for an application, as going with Patrick's example, the width of a region template can be defined differently for each instantiation of that template. I just ran into this issue with a client and had to use a slight workaround. We have an application with 7 tabs - each of which is a different function. We wanted to indicate which function a user was performing by placing the corresponding icon in the region itself. I did not want to have to create 7 almost identical region templates, as that would be too cumbersome to manage. So, I simply created an Applicati...