Indeed. I would like to add: and some popup to show the items already in the list. The text item with a list of items to submit is very difficult to read when you have multiple items to submit. Hard to see if you are missing an item.

FYI you can select multiple page items in the tree view and press Ctrl+C (copy). Then in the page items to submit press Ctrl+V to paste them. Unfortunately, you need to add the commas.

Also in internal discussions it has come up that the page items to submit should be auto populated.

Page items to submit auto-populated would be nice. But mohammed is right that in many occasions in the page editor you have to open the pop-up search multiple times unnecesarily, for selecting multiple items, pages etc because it just closes after clicking the option you want and this is quite annoying. It would be much better if just the search box doesn't close until you have finished selecting everything you want, and pressing a “Finished” button. It is just a way of reducing clicks for common tasks.

This would be very useful; I have an IR with a huge amount of fields to allow the user to filter the IR; LOVs,  text boxes, shuttle lists, etc. and it is a real pain to add a new field, or when debugging, to see if a certain field is in the list of items to submit.  John, that is a neat tip to select several items in the tree to Ctrl-C!

It's boring to select one by one item and not see which item to be selected in a view.

Also in internal discussions it has come up that the page items to submit should be auto populated.

That would be awesome! I'm constantly tripping over this! :-(

I'd settle for the Page Items to Submit property UI element being a multi-line text area rather than a text item…

Probably already aware. Just wanted to point out.

Also in internal discussions it has come up that the page items to submit should be auto populated.

Not all items should be auto populated (Ex: Hidden items with protection).

The below thread explains the issue:

https://community.oracle.com/tech/developers/discussion/4494709/apex-21-2-error-when-protected-item-is-submitted-to-da#latest

Or sometimes developer deliberately may want to use the session value instead of client value.

Regarding auto-populate based on items referenced in the source code, how about an auto-populate button that populates/updates (synchronizes) the list of items being submitted so when the developer updates the code they only need to click auto-populate to refresh the submit list.  Or better yet, have a switch to turn auto-populate on/off that fires anytime the source code is updated on the particular DA, PL/SQL code, etc.

@ino.laurensse Yes, i was about to write that idea, the text field is boring!, we need something smarter like shuttle control or I another smarter.