Recently, I had the requirement of showing how many pending whatchamacallits I had with a visual count indicator. I thought that a small bubble with the count would fit the bill. A quick search for “iphone badge css” yielded many …
Report templates can be a powerful feature for altering the way a report looks. They fall under two main Template Types: Generic Columns and Named Columns. This blog post covers Generic Columns and the ability we have to specify a …
In the previous post I explained my approach to a menu drawer for the desktop. Now lets talk about how to remember if the drawer was left open or closed by the user. One approach would be to use Cookies. …
In this blog post I’ll go through the steps I followed to build a mobile style “menu drawer”, like the animation you see here, but for your desktop application. This UI element is not something I would consider for a …
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 …