There is a lot of confusion going on about Oracle APEX support for mobile Phones (mobile Web-Applications).
Yesterday started Kscope 2011 with some very interesting presentations and a load of Twitter messages following that. Continue reading
This is Article #2 in my series about Oracle APEX on mobile Devices.
If you haven’t read the first one, please do so now.
This Article is based on the current release of Oracle APEX 4.0.2.00.07, but should also work on APEX 3.x and 4.1.
With Oracle APEX 4.1 and later there will be more options and possibilities which let you create an even better mobile Application, more to that in a later Article in this series.
One of the many good things about Oracle APEX is the builtin capability to create multilingual Applications. It gives you a set of tools to translate your Application and provide it in multiple languages at the same time.
One of the Key Components of this Translation Mechanism is the creation of an XLIFF File. This File contains all text strings of your Application (that is all your UI Strings, not your Data) and from which to which language it should be translated.
Going mobile is one of the hot topics at the moment. Everyone has a smartphone with internet connection and a browser. Some prefer brand A against brand B, but that’s just a personal preference. It doesn’t really change a thing.
You want to join the crowd and provide a mobile interface for your APEX Application? Nothing easier than that!
On Friday 06.05.2011 the APEX Development Team had a Surprise for us: they published the first Early Adopter Version of Oracle APEX 4.1
See the posts of Joel Kallman and David Peake.
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When you create a Form page with the APEX Wizard it puts all the fields in just one column which can create a very long page.
This can reduce the use experience and usability a lot.
Sometimes it is a better way to put the fields in two (maybe three) columns and present them all on one screen. This gives the user the benefit of seeing all the information at once. Continue reading
Niels de Brujin wrote a posting about 10 features he would like to see in APEX 5.0 (which sounds like 2016?, just kidding).
One nagging thing about APEX occurs often to me. It’s the inability to customize the Workspace Login Page.
In APEX Instances within corporations you may want to display your own Logo or some custom text explaining your developers what to do and what not.
Pretty basic and easy, but still i have a sticky note at my monitor which reminds me of what is what.
A typical APEX URL looks like this:
http://tryapexnow.com/apex/f?p=2500:1:1016153158259880
That means:
open Application 2500 on Page 1 using Session 1016153158259880
But there can be much more… Continue reading