A couple of days ago the first Patchset for APEX 4.1 was released: APEX 4.1.1.
Read all about the Patchset, Download Options and more in the Blog Posts of Roel, Patrick, Mike, Dimitri and many others. Or simply go to APEX on OTN.
After i downloaded and installed (flawless, thanks for that guys and girls!) APEX 4.1.1 i compared it with APEX 4.1 to see what has changed (besides the obvious).
It’s been a long while since i blogged about a Tool i started to write which would replace the original APEX XLIFF Export and produce XLIFF 1.2 compliant Files instead.
The Benefit is breathtaking, suddenly your Translators are able to know what they are translating – that means where the text they are working on is used. e.g. on the Action-Button in Region XY on Page 234.
This can help your Translators delivering better and more meaningful Translations.
Do you ever wanted to have Syntax Highlighting in the APEX Application Builder?
Or Keyboard Shortcuts for Save, Run, Next and others?
What about efficient and quick Navigation through the Application Builder? e.g. Jump directly from Edit Page to Application Items?
Interactive Reports are very powerful, the end user can set filters, highlighting, add computed columns, do control breaks or groupings and much more.
As a Developer you might sometimes have the requirement to redirect from one page to another which displays an interactive report, but this report should be filtered by whatever value is selected on the first page.
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Roel informed me that my HTML5 input type plugins don’t support the APEX Javascript API’s $v and $s (to retrieve and set the content of the item via Javascript).
After some quick investigations i detected that some Javascript was missing in my Plugin.
Mark Sewtz just revealed a secret: Oracle APEX already contains more support for mobile Applications as expected.
I had to try it out and see what’s new.
Today a very important Page of an important APEX Application has accidentially been deleted. We didn’t want to step back to yesterdays backup, because right before the deletion many changes took place and we didn’t want to code that again.
Last Week i had a customer requirement for an easy method to enter a date, but only month and year.
Using the Date Picker Item it wasn’t possible to show a popup without the days, so I began a search and found a month picker jQuery Plugin.
Using that it was easy to create an APEX Plugin with simple settings: Continue reading
We all read the blogpostings about what features were added in Oracle APEX 4.1, like the ones here, here, here and here.
But what does that mean on a more technical level? Which Views have changed, which API’s have changed?
Inspired by the Webinar over here I thought i’ll give the redgate Schema Compare Tool a try.
Since Version 4.1 of Oracle APEX – with it’s changed Error Handling – ApexLib didn’t work anymore. The changes in Oracle APEX 4.1 lead to compilation errors in APEXLIB_ERROR-Package.