Monday, 26 December 2016

New icons in Apex 5.1

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Apex 5.1 ships with a large set of icons. These are contained in a font called Font Apex. This font contains 1000+ icons. Part of the icons...
Friday, 23 December 2016

Using APEX_MAIL outside of Apex

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Update: This post applies to Oracle schema's that are not assigned to an Apex workspace. When assigned you can use the solution setting ...
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Thursday, 8 December 2016

Automatic resizing of modal dialogs

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The modal dialogs are a very nice feature, easy to use and well integrated in the Apex framework. One thing that annoys me is the vertical s...
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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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