Just read that Carl Backstrom has made his video public, which is showing on of the “WOW” features of the upcoming Oracle APEX 4.0 release. The video was first shown at the “First Oracle APEX Training Days” by APEX Evangelists. Side note: Dimitri Gielis and John Scott blogged about there experience doing this training. Check out there blogs. Good job guys!
But back to the video, check out Carl’s posting APEX 4.0 Preview (aka Video Killed the Radio Star) to see him in “action”! 
I would suggest to get the higher definition version, so that you can see the real beauty of the new feature. BTW, you have to get the VCL player as Carl has written, because the video is coded with the Theora coded which Windows Media Player and QuickTime can’t decode.
And now just a few screen captures as teaser…
New context menu for report columns
On the fly filtering
On the fly grouping
On the fly row/cell highlighting
So users will have a lot of “on the fly” options to modify the report you have created for an Oracle APEX application.
September 15th, 2007 at 07:04
Yeah I’m just having some trouble reencoding that video it. Everytime I do I lose a ton of detail. I’ll keep trying though since when I do more they have to look better in google/youtube video and for download.
My second vidcast will have much better quality (at least for the picture) than this one did.
Carl
September 19th, 2007 at 03:09
great job guys. Just curious about the timeline of APEX 4.0? Can you make it to the OpenWorld this year? kidding;)
Ben Wang
September 19th, 2007 at 04:29
I was told that 3.1 will probably be out end October/November and 4.0 in Q1/08.
Patrick
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:33
Um… 3.2 came out Q1 2009 apparently. Will 4.0 ever see the light of day? I am really worried as we’re about to embark on an entire redevelop of our Forms apps into ApEx, and your note on the limitations of ApEx form handling (http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/plug-play-tabular-form-handling/) actually scared me as to how we could ever do it (as we use mostly tabular for for data entry…)
December 14th, 2009 at 15:35
There is a proposal (immediately apologize for my English):
When we do, for example, grouping, it appears below the search string with the string parameter groupings. If several parameters, a number appears little plus by clicking on those options that you can hide … When you enter the next session, then this line remains as in the previous session. And when comes to a completely new user to a page, it has always, these lines are open. And if filtered initially very much, like I used to have 20-30 parameters there appeared .. the users get lost and can not find the table itself! If I do not understand explained, I can show all the pictures …
September 3rd, 2010 at 15:49
Hello,
I’m trying to view the video’s on this page: http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/oracle-application-express-apex-40-preview-video/ and all your feeds are giving warnings. For example:
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Says:
December 14th, 2009 at 15:35
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I thought you might want to know.
September 3rd, 2010 at 15:50
WOW! After I submitted that last comment, the page reloaded and has rendered properly so I can see everything now
Love technology!
September 5th, 2010 at 16:16
Hi Sue,
looks like it was a temporary issue. Thanks for letting me know.
Regards
Patrick