ApexLib comes with a better Error Display Solution, which sometimes can cause troubling behaviour.
When displaying error messages in the notification area the rest of the page is shifted downwards a little. This is no problem most of the time, except in this case:
This is the first mini-Post from my Blog Series “You search, we answer“.
A common problem after installing Oracle Application Express and configuring a workspace in the Admin/Internal Area is not finding the Workspace Login Screen.
As i was checking my site stats the other day i stumbled across the section “Last search terms” and found there many questions. Obviously people were looking for an answer and somehow landed on this blog.
That, i figured, should be rewarded.
Just to let you know, ApexLib continues to make Oracle APEX a better product and works with also with APEX 4.0 .
At the end of this year 2009 a lot happened, for me most important maybe the early adopter release of Oracle APEX 4.0 (check it out on http://tryapexnow.com).
These are good news, not only is Santa Claus coming next week, there will also be an early adopter online release of Oracle APEX 4.0!
Working on many different Projects leads to a vast number of workspaces and applications over time.
Looking for a certain application can be time consuming if you don’t remember what the workspace this application belongs to is called.
Recently i was dealing with a translation problem regarding multibyte characters (cyrillic). They were stored in a NCLOB and were later on moved to a VARCHAR2.
Before moving the data i had to ensure, that there will be enough space in the VARCHAR2 columns which were defined as VARCHAR2(255 BYTE).
It’s finally done !
ApexLib Version 2.0 is released, go over there and download it and enjoy the new functions.
When it comes to boolean values in the database there are many many different approaches, e.g. you can define a table column of data type number and use 1 or 0 as boolean values.
But there is much more and some of the solutions are better than others.
One of the drawbacks of web applications compared to rich client applications is that most of the time they lack keyboard shortcut support.
How often have you heard from a user that he wants to press a key instead of moving the mouse to click on a button?
Ever got a customer request saying: “When i enter a number in this field i want to display the corresponding name over there as soon as i leave the field” ?
That’s the point where you tell your customer something about using a LOV instead or reloading the page or something else, because APEX lacks declarative [...]
