Comments on: Hacking the APEX error page! http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/ Inside Oracle APEX - a blog that helps to get more out of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for your daily development work! Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Wolf http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 Patrick Wolf Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:49:06 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-1515 Hi Jacques, have a look at the report templates (Shared Components) and there at the "column template" setting. Use the "Standard, Alternating Row Colors" as an example where you see how the conditions work. Best Regards Patrick Hi Jacques,

have a look at the report templates (Shared Components) and there at the “column template” setting. Use the “Standard, Alternating Row Colors” as an example where you see how the conditions work.

Best Regards
Patrick

]]> By: Jacques http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 Jacques Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:26 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-1510 Hi Patrick This looks great. How do you change the color and boldface a record in a table based on a certain status setting. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. I can be contacted at jacques.schalkwyk@finfreeadmin.com Best regards Deep darkest africa Hi Patrick

This looks great. How do you change the color and boldface a record in a table based on a certain status setting. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. I can be contacted at jacques.schalkwyk@finfreeadmin.com
Best regards
Deep darkest africa

]]> By: Hans Quist http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-1383 Hans Quist Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:05:16 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-1383 Hi Patrick, Thanks for your great ApexLib! Still I have a problem. When I have a database error (ie. raised by a trigger in the db), the screen flashes with the (old style) error and the normal page will be shown. When I debug in Apex, I can see the error (also in old apex-style). Other error messages like inline messages work fine. What did I wrong? Thanks for your help! Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your great ApexLib! Still I have a problem. When I have a database error (ie. raised by a trigger in the db), the screen flashes with the (old style) error and the normal page will be shown. When I debug in Apex, I can see the error (also in old apex-style). Other error messages like inline messages work fine. What did I wrong?
Thanks for your help!

]]> By: Patrick Wolf http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Patrick Wolf Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-780 Hi Jules,<br/><br/>the Demo Application is included in the ApexLib distribution. It's in the Examples directory and you can load it into your own workspace.<br/><br/>Patrick Hi Jules,

the Demo Application is included in the ApexLib distribution. It’s in the Examples directory and you can load it into your own workspace.

Patrick

]]> By: Jules Verhoeven http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Jules Verhoeven Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-779 Hi Patrick<br/><br/>What username and password should I use, to see the code in the examples on this page ?<br/><br/>I'm learning the most by seeing some code.<br/><br/>Thanks Hi Patrick

What username and password should I use, to see the code in the examples on this page ?

I’m learning the most by seeing some code.

Thanks

]]> By: Patrick Wolf http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Patrick Wolf Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:08:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-778 Hi David,<br/><br/>thanks for letting me know. I think it depends on the PC speed and the browser. I also see it randomly with Firefox. I have already logged a bug for that issue and will probably fix it in the next release.<br/><br/>I think the solution is to add a "display:none", to hide the error on the error page.<br/><br/>Patrick Hi David,

thanks for letting me know. I think it depends on the PC speed and the browser. I also see it randomly with Firefox. I have already logged a bug for that issue and will probably fix it in the next release.

I think the solution is to add a “display:none”, to hide the error on the error page.

Patrick

]]> By: David http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-777 David Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-777 Excellent stuff will intergrate in current project. You may want to know that the error just flashes up in Opera before disapearing<br/>Version 9.02<br/>Build - 8585<br/>Platform - Win32<br/>System - Windows XP<br/>Java - Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5<br/><br/>Hope this helps. Excellent stuff will intergrate in current project. You may want to know that the error just flashes up in Opera before disapearing
Version 9.02
Build – 8585
Platform – Win32
System – Windows XP
Java – Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Patrick Wolf http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Patrick Wolf Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-776 Thanks Earl! Thanks Earl!

]]> By: earl.lewis http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-775 earl.lewis Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-775 Patrick,<br /><br />This is really nice. Great work!<br /><br />Earl Patrick,

This is really nice. Great work!

Earl

]]> By: Patrick Wolf http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/hacking-apex-error-page/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Patrick Wolf Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:23:00 +0000 http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/en/?p=30#comment-774 Hi,<br /><br />> You display a generic error message to user,<br />> like "there was an error contact administrator"<br />> 2. Log the entire error message into an<br />> error log table.<br /><br />the error page can't decide if it's a sever error or if it's a error raised by a validation process. If I always replace the error by a generic error, I assume the administrator wouldn't be to happy ;-)<br /><br />That's the wrong place to put such code. What we really need is an application/page level event which fires when an error occurs where we have the possibility to change and log the error message.<br /><br />For example in our company we are unable to use all the features of our PL/SQL exception handling package (which builds an call stack with all the input variables for error tracking) when used with APEX, because there is no event where we can call our "format final stack" function. :-(<br /><br />I really hope that we are getting such an entry point in APEX V3.0.<br /><br />Patrick Hi,

> You display a generic error message to user,
> like “there was an error contact administrator”
> 2. Log the entire error message into an
> error log table.

the error page can’t decide if it’s a sever error or if it’s a error raised by a validation process. If I always replace the error by a generic error, I assume the administrator wouldn’t be to happy ;-)

That’s the wrong place to put such code. What we really need is an application/page level event which fires when an error occurs where we have the possibility to change and log the error message.

For example in our company we are unable to use all the features of our PL/SQL exception handling package (which builds an call stack with all the input variables for error tracking) when used with APEX, because there is no event where we can call our “format final stack” function. :-(

I really hope that we are getting such an entry point in APEX V3.0.

Patrick

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