After my initial post about this, I had a discussion with John Snyders of HardLikeSoftware fame, and it turns out there is a better and more efficient way to maintain the tree state. While what I outlined definitely works, what follows is the “preferred method” as it uses more of the built in interfaces. I have therefore implemented this version …
Maintaining APEX Tree Region Expansion State
As soon as I was finished with the first incarnation of the ORDS REST Workshop for release in APEX 18.1, I had a list as long as my arm of things that I wanted to do to improve it. Some small, some large. One of the things that bugs me the most is that the APEX Tree region on the …
Swagger Doc from APEX ORDS RESTful Workshop
Last week Dietmar Aust tweeted about the APEX 18.1 ability to generate Swagger Doc from your ORDS based RESTful services. This is actually an innate ability within ORDS itself and is simply exposed through APEX. What may not have been obvious in EA2 was that there is also a new Instance setting under the REST section. The new setting takes …
ORDS and APEX – Common REST definitions at last
Since re-joining Oracle, my first major project has been to work on better integration of APEX and ORDS when it comes to the definition of RESTful Services. APEX has long had the ability to define and serve RESTful Services on its own. These have been managed via a section of the SQL Workshop known as the RESTful Services Console. These …
Warning APEX Users of Form Changes on Navigation away from the page.
It has come to my attention the the link back to this article that originally appeared on the Enkitec.com web site is broken. Knowing that people still find this useful, I’ve copied it here so that it can be easily found and referenced. It’s a common problem. A user spends time entering data into a form and then, for some …
Beginning Oracle Application Express 5 is OUT!
After a few grueling months, late nights, long weekends and some cursing into my sleeve, it’s finally out. Beginning Oracle Application Express 5 is the updated version of the book which not only includes an all new guided tour of the APEX 5 Page builder, but also takes you through developing an entire system from soup to nuts. My thanks …
ORCLAPEX-DFW First Meetup.
Calling all APEX Fanatics in the DFW area, there’s a new Meetup for you: ORCLAPEX – DFW. Here’s a link to our first event! Grass Roots Explosion As Dan McGhan mentioned in his blog here, Oracle APEX meet up groups are popping up all over the world. This is a grass roots effort lead by people who are passionate about APEX …
You don’t have to wait for APEX 5 for FullCalendar Integration
One of the MANY nice things that is coming in APEX 5.0 is the native integration of the jQuery based FullCalendar, known in the APEX 5.0 Builder as the CSS Calendar. While the native integration will be nice, you shouldn’t have to wait for APEX 5.0 for this functionality. Enter the Enkitec FullCalendar plugin. We integrated FullCalendar into our website …
APEX Printing in Depth – OOW Sunday Symposium
If you’re going to Oracle Open World and will be there for the ODTUG Sunday APEX Symposium, then you’re in for quite an interesting set of sessions. When discussing what would be a good topic for this year’s set of presentations, we wanted to focus on an area within APEX from which everyone could gain some benefit. Although there are …
Warning a user that the form has changed – Tabular Form Style.
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 …