Comments on: Oracle APEX doesn’t work for mission critical applications! It’s just for small applications! – Really?

By: LeinadJan

LeinadJan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:25:12 +0000

Hi Patrick,

I’m currently working with ApEx 3.2, those operators are missing from both Highlight and Filters. I know that the highlight feature as been improve with ApEx 4.0. I did some test on apex.oracle.com. But I notice that the missing operators for filters hasn’t been improve.

In many of my applications I need to filter for values over or under a certain value. <,=,> operators would be very useful in interactive report.

I hope they will add those operators in newest release. So, until my client wants to move on to ApEx 4, they’ll have to export their report to do basic filtering with interactive report.

Thank you for your time !

Leinad

By: Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:38:10 +0000

Hi,

just had a look and it shows all those operators in the “Highlight” dialog in APEX 4. Is it possible that you tried that for a text column? Because there the operators are not available, because they do not make a lot of sense for this type of column.

Regards
Patrick

By: LeinadJan

LeinadJan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:18:27 +0000

APEX is nice, but it has some limits. One example is that we can’t do some basic highlighting of values between two values in the interactive reports, simply because there are no <,,>= or between operators. Those are basic stuf we can do with Ms Excel. Why can’t APEX do that ?

By: George Bara

George Bara — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:57:40 +0000

Hello Partick,

I was a little dissapointed with Apex 4.0 because of an error from the previous versions that was not fixed. It’s the limit of 30k from the text input items. I know there is a workaround for this error (using Ajax, as I remember), but I commonly get this error when trying to edit a Report Layout. I design complex layouts in XSL-FO (I even developed an APEX application that helps me design layouts) and I frequently get the error when uploading layout bigger than 30k. I haven’t found a workaround for this and it limits the PDF printing in APEX very much…

Regards,
George

By: geek empire

geek empire — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:20:05 +0000

I work at a major world transportation center and we use mod_plsql and the htp packages for automation into Modicon PLC’s. And we process a major portion of the US GDP on any given night. Now, we don’t use the entire APEX packages but at least the mod_plsql portion is as solid as you can get.

By: Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:49:06 +0000

Hi,

I don’t think that the Shopping Application will be made available as Packaged Application.

Regards
Patrick

By: Yannis_r

Yannis_r — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:01:48 +0000

Does anyone knows if a version of the shopping script will be available to download?

That will give a huge boost to APEX community!

By: Vasyl

Vasyl — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:32:36 +0000

We used Oracle Application Express for creating bigger application. It’s very good example – Register of voters of Ukraine, which is used for Accounting 38.000.000 of voters.

By: Stew

Stew — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:14:49 +0000

Patrick,

Thanks for this post. It’s a beautiful site. Did you have anything to do with it?

Unlike Kevan, I found responsiveness to be very peppy. I noticed that right away and was very impressed with everything I saw. I didn’t actually log in or place an order, so I don’t know if those sections were slower.

I thought it was interesting that it used session_id:0, a feature I haven’t grokked yet. I thought it made the site look much more professional.

By: Kevan Gelling

Kevan Gelling — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:45:10 +0000

Looks good. It’s great to see Oracle using Apex in anger and with a sexy looking front-end. Hopefully, Apex 4.0 can be shipped with some sexy looking themes too.

I’ve found the site’s response time to be on the sluggishly side. Do you know if the Apex PL/SQL has been natively compiled?

Kevan