If you’re just getting started understanding AJAX and Dynamic Actions, I recommend you watch my “Getting Started with AJAX” video first. This video is the next installment. Alexis Galdamez and I get into the weeds talking about apex.server.process We cover …
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Normally, if you want to refresh a report after a Modal Dialog closes you would create a “Dialog Closed” Dynamic Action (DA), and the True action would be Refresh selection the Report. However, recently I had a very interesting situation …
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Are you curious about what AJAX is or how it works in Oracle APEX?My friend Alexis Galdamez and I recorded an introductory video. We start explaining AJAX, the standard Refresh (or Partial Page Refresh). Then we move to show how …
Pretty simple technique to create a clear content button for an APEX Item
A client posed a reasonable question; could we just click on a button to reset an Interactive Report? Paraphrasing the conversation, the genesis of this request was that in order to reset a report we need to click Actions > …
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As you may already know, APEX 5.1 implements native Warn Before Exit functionality. Basically, if the user makes changes on a page and tries to navigate away before they save their changes, they get a warning. Modal Pages also get …
Do you want to add Drag & Drop functionality to your APEX applications? That’s what this video is all about. You’ll see me working on the list created in the previous episodes (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) and …
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I first learned how to implement Drag & Drop functionality from Doug Gault’s presentation at Kaleidoscope 2010 (yes before it was Kscope) “Replicating NetFlix Queue Drag-and-Drop Functionality with Oracle Application Express/jQuery” (Membership required). I mean, I wasn’t actually there, but …
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I love the Select2 jQuery plugin. It’s a feature rich, good looking, select list replacement. As an APEX developer, it makes sense to use the excellent plugin from Nick Buytaert. Since its announcement, in Aug 2013, you would be hard …
APEX 5 has a nifty nice enhancement to the use of apex.widget.waitPopup. It now returns a “remove” function you can call to remove the wait indicator. // variable for return function (add it to your “Function and Global Variable Declaration” …