I use Dan McGhan’s Modal Page Plugin extensively. I think it’s fantastic and I can’t imagine not using it on any new project. The Oracle APEX Team must have also recognized it’s usefulness because the functionality is now baked into …
Here is a very quick entry, mostly to document how I sometimes keep applications in dev and QA (or prod) apart. Lately I’ve been working with development and QA applications that live in the same workspace and server. Dev would …
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I’m very excited to be part of KScope once again this year. June 22-26, 2014 The location is the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. I’ll be doing two presentations. First, I’ll be co-presenting with Scott Spendolini on “Creating Business-Oriented UI …
NOTE: In APEX5 you’ll want to switch from APEX_UTIL.PUBLIC_CHECK_AUTHORIZATION to APEX_AUTHORIZATION.IS_AUTHORIZED. Thank you to Dali for the comment. –April, 27 2015 APEX Authorization Schemes are a very effective and simple way to restrict elements in our applications. Once defined, these …
When dealing with long text entries in a report, sometimes it’s necessary to reduce or simplify the amount of data being displayed. In this first report we see how the Summary column would be displayed straight from the database. We …
Do you enable feedback in your applications? Do you use Modal Page Windows too? Then, you’ve probably noticed that your modal windows don’t get a feedback link. That is, of course, unless you add the Navigation Bar to your Popup window …
If you want to default the search column in an Interactive Report, you can easily accomplish this with a Dynamic Action on the After Refresh event of your IR. This way instead of the report searching all columns, it will search …
When you enter data on a page we often think about APEX Validations when we want to validate our inputs and give errors to the user. (i.e. Value is required. Dates are not within range, etc…) However, sometimes you may not …
I find that using the Feedback functionality on APEX is just perfect when users are testing and reviewing your work on a dev or test environment. It’s incredibly easy to setup. Add a new page of type “Feedback Page”. Select …
This is Part 2 in the series, checked out Part 1 if you missed it. First order of business, make a copy of the public pages application. Install Theme 25 and make it current. Cool! So far so good, the …
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