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Oracle APEX 5.0 EA2 - first impressions
You can now request a workspace in the brand-new version of Oracle APEX 5.0 (EA2).Once requested a workspace you will get an email to activate it - and you're up-and-running!The login screen looks...
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APEX 5.0 - Keyboard shortcuts
Develop even faster? use the keyboard shortcuts in Oracle Application Express (APEX) - you find them defined here:Here's the list:Display From HereCtrl+Option+DDisplay From PageCtrl+Option+TGo to...
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APEX 5.0 - Button Appearance (template options + Font Awesome)
With the new template, the new buttons for example are highly customisable in APEX 5.0(icon on the left or right, spacing between, etc.)In the Appearance section you find kinda the same options as in...
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APEX 5.0 - Page Designer; immediate feedback and more
In APEX 5.0 you (can) develop in the new Page Designer.The Page Designer makes you way more productive, less clicks and quicker results. You have to get used to it, and you probably want a big monitor...
View ArticleKScope14 (Sunday) - APEX Symposium - before noon
Sunday is typically the day where the Oracle development team is on stage to talk about what they do, give insight in the product etc. - for me personally one of the highlights of the conference.The...
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Interested in Oracle APEX in Belgium and around? - join ORCLAPEX-BE Meetup
Over the last months different Oracle Application Express (APEX) meetups were initiated around the world. You can read a bit of background on how the meetups started on Dan's blog.I think it's a great...
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APEX 5.0: Bye bye Tabs, welcome to Navigation Lists
In previous versions of Oracle APEX (< 5.0) you could use Tabs for the navigation in your application.Tabs were not that flexible, they were typical on top of your page in a specific look and feel....
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SSH Tunnel in SQL Dev 4.0.3
Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler got a new version (4.0.3).You can now setup an SSH tunnel in your connection - it saves you to setup a tunnel first.This new release also...
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APEX 4.2.6 patch available
Oracle released APEX 4.2.6Â yesterday, it's also available from My Oracle Support as a patch set 19595896.Here's the table of bug fixes.Table 6 Bugs Fixed in the Oracle Application Express 4.2.6.00.03...
View ArticleMS Sharepoint and Oracle APEX integration
At Oracle Open World I gave a presentation about the integration of Microsoft Sharepoint and Oracle Application Express (APEX).I see a lot of companies using Microsoft Sharepoint as portal for their...
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2015 - "The" Year of Oracle Application Express (APEX)
The year 2014 was the 10th anniversary of Oracle Application Express (APEX). I still find it unbelievable 10 years have pasted. Time flew by... you might think that after 10 years of building APEX...
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Creating a new APEX application
Previously I announced I would start a chain of blog posts related to Oracle Application Express. Next to the blog posts I'll build up a supporting APEX application where you can see the result of what...
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Highlight negative numbers in an APEX Report (css only)
Here's a screenshot of the result we want: the negative numbers are highlighted in red.There're many ways to achieve highlighting certain areas in a report, but depending the complexity of the logic...
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Generating sample data for your APEX application
You need some sample data sometimes too? When I'm showing some new concepts at a customer or when I'm doing some training I just want some "random" data. Well, it's not really random data, it's a...
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APEX Conferences in 2015
In 2015 most APEX-only conferences are scheduled in history. I definitely recommend to attend at least one of the conferences as it's a great time to meet other people, industry experts and the APEX...
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APEX and Scalable Vector Icons (Icon Fonts)
For a couple of years now webdesigners and developers don't use image icons anymore, instead we moved to scalable vector icons.Before you had to create different images for the different formats and...
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APEX and Font Awesome integration
In the previous post I talked about scalable vector images. In this post we will integrate Font Awesome in our APEX app, but the steps for the same if you would pick another library.Step 1: we need to...
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Representing many-to-many tables in a Report
Consider my case: I've a customer table and a products table. Customers can select multiple products they want to have. The diagram look like this: Customers on the left, Products on the right and a...
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Using Shuttles in a many-to-many relationship (Form)
In the previous post I showed some options how you can represent a many-to-many table relationship in a report using the LISTAGG Oracle function.In this post we will edit a record and see how we can...
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Keep ready to test the final EA of APEX 5.0
Oracle is gearing up to release APEX 5.0... the final early adopter release (EA3) will be released soon. Over 6000 people participated in APEX EA2...Here's the email of Joel Kallman:As EA3 will be very...
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