Usability & Productivity | Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

Oracle APEX Page Template Position Preview

20. January 2008

On Friday I had to do some work on an Oracle Application Express (APEX) application of a client which I did some time ago. I had to create a new region next to an existing region on a page which had already several other regions on it. Normally no big problem, you would just use [...]

Add Double Click to Oracle APEX Shuttle Widget

12. January 2008

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Do you want to improve the usability of the Oracle APEX Shuttle Widget a little bit? Let’s enhance it by adding support for double click. It will allow users to double click on an entry in one of the two lists of the shuttle, to move the selected entry to the other list as they would [...]

ApexGen: A new Oracle APEX related open source project!

4. January 2008

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Morten Braten just released this first Alpha Version of this new project called ApexGen – The Oracle APEX Generator. From the project description: ApexGen is a utility to generate Oracle Application Express (Apex) pages and page components based on a PL/SQL API, in a fraction of the time it takes to manually create report and form [...]

"Comment out" an Oracle APEX Process, Validation, Branch, …

18. December 2007

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Sometimes during development there is the requirement to “Comment out” a Process, a Validation, … in an Oracle Application Express (APEX) application. To skip a step which doesn’t work anymore, or where a user says he doesn’t need that anymore but where you are sure that next week you are going to add it again… In [...]

A "hidden" gem of Oracle Application Express

2. October 2007

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Oracle Application Express (APEX) has a “hidden” gem (ok, there are a lot of others too) which in my opinion isn’t widely used by the developers. Be honest, how often do you use the little “View” select list on page definition? You should, because it has several useful entries which can make your life easier! But let’s [...]

SQL Workshop – Commands: Keyboard Shortcut

6. June 2007

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Did you know that you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Return in the SQL Commands textarea of the Oracle APEX SQL Workshop application to execute the current SQL statement? That’s really nice, especially if you are used to it from PL/SQL Developer/TOAD.

Firebug – must have for JavaScript/Web developers

14. January 2007

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If you are a JavaScript developer or create your web-pages with CSS, then the Firefox add-on

ApexLib: Get a Page Flow Diagram of your application!

2. January 2007

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Yesterday I came across Graphviz and remembered that a college had already used it to generate some ERDs/Class diagrams. After taking a closer look, I thought to give it a try and use it to generate a page flow diagram for an APEX application as you can also see it for JSF in JDeveloper.

Firefox add-ons I use for APEX development

10. December 2006

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If you are using Firefox for your APEX development you may want to check out my list of add-ons I’m currently using for the web development. If you have any useful add-ons you are using, drop me a note!

Bored of setting the template property again and again?

28. November 2006

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If yes, continue reading. If not, continue doing it again and again, … For example you like the “Standard, Alternating Row Colors” template for reports or you don’t want to write help texts (which developer does?) for your items, but the Oracle APEX builder always defaults the item to “Optional Label with Help”.

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