Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Stop typing and generate you substitution code

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Some years ago I attended a presentation of John Scott in which he demonstrated the use of substitution for producing a string from a number...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Wrestling with session state

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Today I was asked to implement change detection in an Apex page. This page used a custom PL/SQL process instead of the standard Apex transac...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Disabling Apex items the right way

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Sometimes you want to show data without the user being able to change it. The easiest way in Apex to use reports and read only items. There ...
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Friday, 11 November 2016

Splitting reports into columns revisited

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Two years ago I wrote a blog post about splitting a long not wide report into several columns as in the image below. That post was based...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Positioning items next to each other

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In the Universal Theme in Apex 5 it seems easy to position items next to each other. Just set Start new row to N and the item stays in the ...
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Thursday, 15 September 2016

Using nice icons for links

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As many people I am used to use the link images that Apex proposes when creating Forms with reports. And I end up with a bit grey images lik...
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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Displaying large numbers in human readable form

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While developing the dashboard for the Apex Dashboard Competition I found the challenge of presenting large numbers in a readable form. If y...