Logout-URL for APEX applications

Closely linked to my previous post is how to set the Logout URL (&LOGOUT_URL.). Because when working with linked applications, the Logout-URL will possibly need to redirect the user to the login application that contains some kind of portal page for the different applications.

Most often this URL is displayed as a link on top of every page, usely next to the login-user-name.

Setup is done via Navigation Bar Entries in the Shared Components section.

As target there are two available options: a Page in this Application or a URL.
In this case most easy solution is to opt for the URL, pointing to the variable &LOGOUT_URL. that is available throughout the application.

It's as easy as this. But now of course you want to know how to influence this &LOGOUT_URL.-variable.
Well, this is done via Shared Components > Authentication Schemes.

Pick the Current scheme and navigate to the Post-Logout URL tab.

This identifies the URL that the user will navigate to after having correctly logged out of the application. The first parameter after f?p= represents the application alias (or application ID) of the APEX application you want to return to. In this case the application I want to start form has an alias called MYTEST.

For information: the second parameter is the page ID (or alias) of that application.

That's really all there is to it.
Happy to share.