Quite some time ago, I wrote a quit tip about How to Warn a User That the Form Has Changed. The gist of the post was this: “It’s a common problem. A user spends time entering data into a form and then, for some reason, clicks a button or tab that will navigate away from the form without saving his …
Using APACHE ANT to build APEX projects.
At Oracle Open World 2012, Scott Spendolini and I did a presentation entitled “Developing Commercial APEX Applications”. One of the topics that seemed to get a lot of attention and a number of questions was automating our build process using ANT. Several people requested a copy of the ANT script, so instead of sending it out individually, I’ve decided to …
‘Growl’ style notification messages for APEX
A question was asked in this thread on the APEX forums that got me itching to do a science experiment. The basic question was this: “Is it possible to produce ‘Growl’ style notifications in place of the standard APEX Success and Failure messages?” In short the answer is an unequivocal ‘Yes’, and here’s how: First, unless you’re a JavaScript whiz …
It’s been quiet… Too Quiet!
You have probably noticed that this blog has been very quite for the last few months… Well, there is a reason for that. Apart from the books that I’ve been involved in writing, we at Sumneva been working feverishly to put the finishing touches on our first product, sumnevaSERT. And today, we release it into the wild. And with all …
APEX 4.1 Early Adopter Available.
The APEX team has once again surpassed expectations and has released the Early Adopter version or APEX 4.1 on http://tryaxpexnow.com. A list of what’s new appears in the Feature Description application, but both Joel Kallman and David Peake warn that there is likely to be more in the final production release. After having a look at the features, here are …
Beginning Oracle Application Express 4
That’s the title of the book I’ve agreed to write for APRESS, or at least the working title. The book will be aimed at new comers to Application Express, introducing them to the environment via the development of a full system and using as many of the new features as possible. However, I’m hoping that it will be useful for …
Refreshing Flash Charts with AJAX.
NOTE: This post makes use of internal APEX JavaScript that is not part of the standard public API’s. Therefore it is likely not supported, so use at your own risk! ————————– Yesterday, I ran across this post on the OTN APEX Forums. The problem was basically this. Say you have a chart which you want to refresh each time someone …
Warning a user that the form has changed he navigates away without saving.
For those of you who haven’t visited the new Sumneva.com site, here’s an excuse. We’ve added a Tips & Tricks section on the Support tab where we will be sharing little tid-bits of information that we learn as we work with APEX. Our goal is to try to continually add new entries and make this a repository of useful information. …
ODTUG Kaleidoscope – The countdown begins…
As many of you know, ODTUG Kaleidoscope runs from June 21-25 in Monterey, California. Topics covered will range from Essbase and Hyperion, BI and Data Warehousing, SOA, BPM to my favorite, Application Express. This year there are over 40+ APEX related presentations, a number of which will be presented by Oracle ACE and ACE DIRECTORS. Pretty exciting stuff if you’re …
JavaScript and Dates.
If you’ve ever tried to work with date manipulation and formatting in JavaScript, then you know what a hassle it can be. While trying to solve a particularly itchy problem with dates, I ran across this post by Steven Levithan that everyone should be aware of. He’s put together a very nice little Java Script library that lets you format …