Last week I returned to the Netherlands after a very strict travel schedule from Kaleidoscope 2011. Delays, heavy turbulence, running at airports and hoping to see my luggage back, made my trip back not that pleasant. Next time a direct flight to Los Angeles?
It was a week packed with sessions. For me the accent was of course on APEX. Within every slot 3 sessions to choose from, it was an intense week. Sunday was reserved for Oracle's development team. Lots of info on APEX 4.1. One of the best sessions for me that week was the session 'APEX 4 + HTML 5 = Awesome' by Martin Giffy d'Souza. Always nice to see that in various presentations 'our' APEX plugin site came along.
Always nice to catch up with all APEX minded people. With my ACE friends we had a excellent ACE dinner at a very good restaurant. The highlight of the week was the big party at the Queen Mary.
I'll hope to see everyone again in San Antonio at Kaleidoscope 2012!
Learco Brizzi
Oracle Application Express (APEX) and other stuff
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Oracle APEX 4.1 Early Adopter Release 1 available
Oracle APEX 4.1 Early Adopter Release 1 is available on tryapexnow.com. One of the greatest improvements is the error handling. Since 2004 I waited for this enhancement. For Mobile Support and Data Upload we have to wait a little more.
A description of all new features is here.
Happy testing!
A description of all new features is here.
Happy testing!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Highlight current record in Interactive Report
- Create an interactive report with an ID column. On the page must be an item (Pxx_ID which holds the ID, for example an item in a form region to edit the details of a selected record, based on the same table on the same page.
- Don't define a link in the reports attribute page, but do it at the ID column. The reason is that you can't use the #ID# syntax in the link icon property.
- At the property of the link icon of the column with the ID, define the image tag with an additional attribute: value="#ID#". When the user clicks on the link, the value of the ID must be stored in the previously defined id-item. Also define the rest of the brach logic when a user clicks on the link.
At page level include in the 'Execute when Page Loads' property, the following jQuery javascript:
$('img[value=' + $v('Pxx_ID') +']').parents('tr:first').children('td').css('background-color','#CCFFFF');
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
APEX 4.1. A new Statement of direction
Oracle published its new statement of direction for APEX yesterday. Below the highlights with some comments.
Oracle Application Express 4.1
Oracle Application Express 4.1 will focus on enhancement to existing functionality and additional capabilities to support applications running on mobile devices. Application Express 4.1 is planned to incorporate the following:- Development for Mobile Applications – Include themes and HTML templates suitable for smart phones and mobile devices.
- Charting - Provide for chart rendering without using Flash (to enable display on mobile devices).
- Error Handling - Improve error handling and user-defined exception processing.
- Interactive Reporting – Allow multiple reports on one page and support pivot queries.
- Tabular Forms – Allow multiple tabular forms on one page and continue to expand tabular forms validations.
- Master-Detail-Detail – Allow the generation of pages to support master-detail-detail relationships.
- Dynamic Actions – Enhance conditional processing and allow dynamic actions to be defined for tabular forms, reports, and buttons.
- Plug-Ins - Add plug-in support for additional components and enhance plug-in definitions.
- Use of ROWID – Allow usage of ROWID for Automatic DML processing (as an alternative to identifying the PK columns).
- Modal Dialogue - Add ability to display a dialog on top of a page (the rest of the page will be grayed out).
- Websheets – Allow for greater control over user interface, new page section types, and enhanced spreadsheet / datagrid integration.
- Data Upload - Enable end-users to upload data into an existing table (within an application).
- Accessibility – Improve accessibility in existing themes and HTML templates.
- Numerous functional and performance improvements.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Pre release of APEX 4.0.2 patch set
Last Friday Joel Kallman mentioned on his blog the pre-release of the APEX 4.0.2 patch set. There are also two new themes (21 and 22) included.
Good to see the APEX team is still working hard to provide us with such a great product.
Good to see the APEX team is still working hard to provide us with such a great product.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
APEX 4.0 released!
Application express 4.0 is officially released!
This is a major release with many many new features. Good timing also: just before ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 in Washington. All the developers are of course focused on one tool during the event: APEX.
This is a major release with many many new features. Good timing also: just before ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 in Washington. All the developers are of course focused on one tool during the event: APEX.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
APEX OCP exam by the end of July?
I while ago there was some communication about an APEX OCP exam. Being curious, I wrote an email to Oracle Education and asked for the actual status. Below their reply.
It's version 3.2 they are talking about, so maybe there will be another beta ......
Happy studying!
Please note that the beta ended on May 15, 2010 for the Exam 1Z0-450 Oracle Application Express 3.2: Developing Web Applications and the production version of this exam will be available after 10-11 weeks from the Beta end date.
Please visit our website for more information : http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_450
Regards,
OCP Team
It's version 3.2 they are talking about, so maybe there will be another beta ......
Happy studying!
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