Building Apex Plugins 101

Martin Giffy DSouza on 28 March 2012 with 0 comments

Martin Giffy D’Souza has created some of the most popular plug-ins available on the APEX plug-in community page. He has learned a lot about the architecture and what it takes to make a robust plug-in. In this video, Martin will help get you started with creating your first APEX plug-in. He will also provide you with some tips and useful… Continue Reading →

APEX Plugin Competition

Peter Raganitsch on 28 March 2012 with 0 comments

The first ODTUG APEX Plugin Competition was launched on Tuesday March 27th 2012). This is a chance for everybody to submit their self created Plugins to get reviewed, judged and maybe win one of the many Prizes available. Plugins will be judged upon skill level of its creator. That means beginners and experts will not be in the same category,… Continue Reading →

How APEX Processes Various Conditions and Validations

Martin Giffy DSouza on 26 March 2012 with 0 comments

I was recently teaching an Intro to APEX course and the students had some questions about what to put in the Expression 1 text area for different conditions and validations based on the Type selected. If you’re new to APEX the various options can be confusing. To help clear things up I have covered various APEX conditions and validations along with code that demonstrates… Continue Reading →

E-Business Suite and APEX

Dimitri Gielis on 15 February 2012 with 0 comments

There is a series of posts on my blog where I focussed on getting information out of E-Business Suite and use it in my APEX application. This is especially useful for people using APEX. Here is a complete overview of those posts: Calling EBS Webservices from APEX Using EBS Open Interface from APEX Debugging EBS API calls in APEX Updating EBS data… Continue Reading →

Wouldn’t you like to talk to your APEX app?

Roel Hartman on 17 January 2012 with 0 comments

You may be familiar with Martin Giffy D’Souza’s blog talkapex.com (if you’re not, check it out – it’s really worthwhile). But wouldn’t it be nice to not only talk about APEX, but also to APEX? The only thing you need is a recent version of Chrome (11 or up) and a microphone. And then…just by entering “x-webkit-speech” to the HTML… Continue Reading →

Using a database link with heterogeneous services in APEX

Gert Poel on 05 January 2012 with 0 comments

Last weeks I ran into some issues with APEX, so let’s take some time to write something about them. The most recent is about heterogeneous services (also referenced as HS). Here is the case: We have an Oracle DB instance with some APEX applications and in one of those applications I need data from a MS SQL server database. Not… Continue Reading →

APEX: Friendlier Exception Message from AJAX Call

Alex Nuijten on 04 January 2012 with 0 comments

While it is very easy to create a “Form and a Report” on a single table or view (just follow the wizard), it is not always intuitive for end users that they should navigate to the form page to remove the record. A nicer solution is the one described by Anthony Rayner in this demo page. This solution uses a… Continue Reading →

Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins

Martin Giffy DSouza on 15 December 2011 with 0 comments

One of the most anticipated new features that was introduced in APEX 4.0 was the ability to create your own APEX objects using the plugins framework. Since plugins were new when 4.0 was released there were just a handful of examples available online to help you learn how to create them. Today I’m pleased to announce that there’s a new… Continue Reading →

Upgrade to APEX 4.1: Invalid Login Credentials

Alex Nuijten on 08 November 2011 with 0 comments

Always a good idea to upgrade on a Friday.. not… In the past I did numerous upgrades to the latest APEX release, and never really encountered big problems. It was always very smooth, kudos to the APEX-team. If something went wrong it was mostly my own fault, which I will admit now. Because of the history of going very smoothly,… Continue Reading →

What’s new in Oracle APEX 4.1? – from the inside

Peter Raganitsch on 02 November 2011 with 0 comments

We all read the blog postings about what features were added in Oracle APEX 4.1, like the ones here, here, here and here. But what does that mean on a more technical level? Which Views have changed, which API’s have changed? Inspired by the webinar over here I thought I’d give the Red Gate Schema Compare Tool a try. The… Continue Reading →