APEX Tabular Form – Instant Update

Yesterday an interesting question regarding tabular forms, collections and instant updates was asked in the Oracle APEX Forum. This example in my Demo Application shows how you can create a tabular form based on a collection and update this collection instantly. The whole example consists of three main parts:

1. (more...)

Getting the amount of rows from report with jQuery

I had the task to show the amount of displayed rows from a standard report on another position of the page. As "Pagination Scheme" in the "Report Attributes" I used: "Row Ranges X to Y from Z"

To get this Z value I needed to check the HTML code:



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Getting Interactive Report Query

I know this is nothing new but I had a hard time to find this out. In one of my projects I needed the exact query of an interactive report in order to save the data into a PL/SQL collection. I tried using the provided IR Application Views but those (more...)

Adobe Fireworks Colour Picker Problem on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

I’ve had a problem with Adobe Fireworks CS5 ever since upgrading to a Retina Display MacBook. The problem is that the eye-dropper colour picker tool just doesn’t work any more. At all. Very frustrating.

I came across a very simple workaround today which can be found here:

http://simianstudios.com/blog/post/colour-picker-bug-workaround-for-adobe-fireworks-cs4-in-os-x-lion

 

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Goodies – APEX 4.2.2 included Libraries

External libraries are typically used to extend APEX so you (and the APEX development team) don't need to build certain features from scratch. 

One of the advantages of applying the latest patches is that the external libraries that come with APEX carry an update too. Most known examples of (more...)

Why i’m going to Kscope 13

Only a little over 6 weeks, then this years Kscope Conference starts in New Orleans.

Last year i had the honor to present there for the first time and i absolutely loved it.

Here’s why…

I’m doing my fair share of travelling and attending several conferences, mostly around europe, and (more...)

Oracle Database 12c and APEX

The below content is based on a David Peake's presentation at OOW 2012 and APEX World 2013.

As the Oracle Database 12c is not out yet at the time of writing, note that things might be different in the final product.

The Oracle Database 12c is a major release in Oracle (more...)

APEX Ice Cream – Oracle ACE Cookbook

The warm days are coming... time for some APEX Ice Cream! 

People in my close environment, they know I can't resist ice cream and chocolate! 
So what I did was I bought a real ice cream machine, so I could make my ice cream myself :-)


The different (more...)

Expand APEX tree after page load

This little snippet of code will expand the APEX tree:
$("input:[value='Expand All']").click();
This solutions finds the HTML objects by the displayed value. Use it in a "Dynamic Action > Page Load > Execute Javascript" process.

In case you use multi language applications then this solution will fit better:
http://apextips.blogspot.de/2011/03/expand-and-collapse-all-tree-nodes.html

Goodies – APEX 4.2.2 Sample and Packaged Apps

After reading Michael Hichwa's blog post about APEX 4.2.2 where he mentions the patch set includes a major upgrade of all 18 productivity and all 16 database sample applications, I decided to install all of them again and check them out.



Those apps are a great way to (more...)

Importing APEX Team Development Feedback from TEST to DEV (on same instance)

One of the great features in APEX is Team Development. It was introduced in APEX 4.0 and I already blogged about it before, so if you don't know what it is, have a look at my previous post first.

This post is about exporting the feedback from your other (more...)

Review PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development (e-book)

Packt asked me if I was interested in reading one of their books, PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot, and write my thoughts on it.

As the topic is in my interest sphere and I was having a long flight ahead, I decided to use that time to (more...)

APEX 4.2.2 released

Oracle Application Express (APEX) 4.2.2 is now released, you can read up and download it here, or try it out on http://apex.oracle.com. In addition to fixing some bugs Oracle APEX 4.2.2 includes a major upgrade of all 18 productivity and all 16 database (more...)

APEX-Community meets Development – Munich, May 16th


Mark your calendars for May 16th. Following the Cloud World events (more...)

How attending #Kscope13 can change your life …

Wow. Doesn't that sound dramatic? It sure does. But in a weird way it also might come true - as I have experienced in the past.
The first Kscope conference I attended was five years ago. And purely by coincidence that was in New Orleans as well! That first year I met all the (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 Patch released

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...)

APEX 4.2.2 patch set released

Today APEX 4.2.2 was released. As with every patch set a number of bugs got fixed, but this patch also contains a new packaged application to build surveys.


Here's a screenshot of the app:


If you are on 4.2 or 4.2.1 (first patch set), you (more...)

Oracle OTN Developer Day in New York on May 7th


Are you interested in developing and running your Oracle Application Express applications (more...)

PDF Printing with Oracle Application Express 4.2.2


Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 was released today, you can download the full release from the Download page on OTN. As always, there have been numerous improvements and bug fixes. We’ve updated many of our included packaged applications and we’ve introduced a new packaged application: the Survey Builder, which (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 now available


Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 is now released and available for download.  If you wish to download the full release of Oracle Application Express 4.2.2, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.  If you have Application Express 4.2 or 4.2.1 already (more...)