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Today my client decided to remove the email functionality from all interactive reports in their APEX application.

I could step through all the pages of my application and check whether there are any interactive reports used. This very manual approach can take some time and I can make mistakes by (more...)

Just yesterday, the most recent APEX patch set has been released. It is Release 4.2.2.00.11. The full version just as well as the patch set to apply to a 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 instance can be downloaded from here.

The full details can (more...)

In May, I will take part in one of ODTUG's webinars:

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

ODTUG's Expert Panel - Oracle Application Express
 
Panelists: Dietmar Aust (Opal Consulting), Roel Hartman (APEX Evangelists ), Dan McGhan (Enkitec)
Moderator: Patrick Cimolini (Patrick International APEX Consulting) 

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Typically and for good security reasons the password manager from either Firefox or any other browser will not prompt you to save the password for the login screen of the APEX workspace or any of your own APEX applications.



Why? The APEX team implemented the login page with the HTML (more...)

Wie jedes Jahr in den letzten sechs Jahren, veranstalten wir (Denes Kubicek und ich) unser

Oracle APEX: Knowhow aus der Praxis

Training in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse. Wir werden unsere bisherigen Themen überarbeiten und einige neue Themen hinzufügen. So werde ich auch folgende neue Themen in das Programm der (more...)

Would you like to upgrade your existing JasperReportsIntegration with the latest 5.0.1 libraries of JasperReports?

Here you go ...

Step 1: Download the files for 5.0.1

You can download the files here:

 

Step 2: Shutdown the Apache Tomcat J2EE server

 

Step 3:  Remove the (more...)

In November I have been presenting at the last DOAG conference in Germany about documentation in APEX projects ( http://daust.blogspot.de/2012/11/presenting-at-doag-next-week.html ). The presentation (only in German) is now available for download.

Cheers,
~Dietmar.

Two days ago on Friday, the APEX 4.2.1 patch set has been released.

Although the quality of APEX is really high compared with other products, I tend to ALWAYS wait for the first patch set.

Ok, no more excuses for not upgrading to APEX 4.2 :).

Cheers and enjoy,
~Dietmar.

My abstracts for Oracle Application Express have just been accepted for presentation at ODTUG Kscope13, June 23-27, at the New Orleans Sheraton in New Orleans, LA:

• APEX + XE: a cookbook for a secure setup 
• A spotlight on the smaller improvements of APEX 4.2 

This is THE (more...)

Dear all, I have just received the Oracle ACE award for my contributions to the community and my knowledge about Oracle technologies, in particular with regards to Oracle Application Express and Oracle XE.

Thank you Oracle!

This is quite an honor since there are only 15 active Oracle ACEs in (more...)

Yesterday was the second of three days of the DOAG conference in Nürnberg. Once again this was a huge event for Oracle APEX.

We had lots of good APEX presentations from Patrick Wolf, Marc Sewtz, Christian Neumüller Carsten Czarski, Niels de Bruijn, Christian Rokitta, Peter (more...)

Whow, time is passing by so fast ;).

The DOAG conference 2012 is only a few days away. And there will be 26 presentations around APEX alone!



So come by and experience the APEX enthusiam! Make sure to attend the sessions presented by Marc Sewtz, Patrick Wolf, Christian (more...)

I am currently setting up the APEX Listener at a new customer. Unfortunately they are running Windows ;).

To be more precise, they are running Windows 2008 Server R2 (64bit). I have installed Apache http server 2.2.22 and Apache Tomcat 7.0.30.

Everything went fine so far. (more...)

Since Oracle XE was initially released in January 2006 I believed there was no usage restriction whatsoever with regards to the type of application you could build with Oracle XE and especially in combination with Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX).

Just recently a customer of mine was told by an (more...)

With the JasperReportsIntegration kit I provide a mechanism to call JasperReports reports from an APEX application.

The reports are stored locally in the filesystem accessible to the j2ee container running the JasperReportsIntegration j2ee application. This application will connect to the desired Oracle schema using connection information deployed in the J2EE (more...)

Hi guys,

I am pleased to announce the beginning of the beta test for the upcoming release 2.0.0 of the JasperReportsIntegration kit.

I welcome you all to participate in the beta test, you might even have the chance to get some extra features in or at put your (more...)

JasperReports 4.7.0 was released a few weeks ago. The new release of the iReport designer is not yet announced on the homepage, but you can download the new files already: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/files/iReport/

I will update the integration kit in a few days. This time it will be released (more...)

JasperSoft provides online training for JasperReports and the iReport designer. You can find it here: https://www.jaspersoft.com/bi-training-center

Some of the content is free, some of the content is being charged for with a monthly subscription around $200 per month.

One free nugget you should propably have a look at (more...)

Hi guys,

I have updated the JasperReportsIntegration kit. The new libraries 4.6.0 of JasperReports are now included.

The integration kit itself has not changed. Thus you can simply update the JasperReports libraries to version 4.6.0. This process is explained in the FAQ.

You can find all (more...)

Hi guys,

the samples for my JasperReports presentation at ODTUG KScope12 are now available online, you can download them here: 2012-06-28-ODTUG-KScope12-jasper-reports-samples.zip

Although you can download the slides for both of my presentations from the ODTUG site, you can download them here as well:

• Taming of the Shrew - Documenting (more...)