After the party is before the party
Now two months after the #pougtrip everything went back to normal. Except the planning for the next events.The DOAG #NextGEN is currently starting a "roadshow" at German universities. Start is the...
View ArticleDynamic LOV with Pipeline function
A new year brought me some new tasks. I had to take over a generic Excel import and the customer wanted some extension by checking if the join on the master tables were successful.Unfortunate we were...
View ArticleAPEX ist anders. Genau das gleiche gilt auch für die APEX Connect!
Es gibt zwei Dinge die ich in über 10 Jahren im Oracle Umfeld immer und immer wieder höre:1. Die Community wird immer älter.2. APEX ist aus Grund XY schlecht.Was hat die APEX Connect damit zu tun? Die...
View ArticleInteractive Report - Column background color
One of my customers needed an IR where half of the report columns should be visualized in another color.It is really easy to integrate. Go into the report column attributes inside your "Page Designer"...
View ArticleCREATE or COPY master data pages in APEX
In this blog post I just want to give a hint about the positive and negatives effects when you COPY master data pages for different master data tables.Example:You have two tables: DOCUMENT_CATEGORY and...
View ArticleJoin the NextGEN group at APEX Connect 18
The #NextGEN community is planning an after conference evening activity. For that reason we published a German article with all details on doag.org. My dear friend Jonas translated the text via...
View ArticleCheck inside your APEX application if debug mode is enabled
Sounds like a simple task but whenever I have the requirement to add a region and make it conditional to check if APEX is running in debug mode. I always search for half an hour finding the right...
View ArticleWorking with the APEX tree
Out of a coincidence I haven't used the APEX tree region for years. Now I got the task to create a customizable tree in my application. Since APEX 5 there is a new tree type called "APEX tree" which...
View ArticleEnable save button on form change
Today I had the requirement that the save button should stay disabled until a form item changed.After digging around I found a quite easy solution which worked well until now.Save ButtonStatic ID:...
View ArticleCopy and Paste to clipboard
Well I had the requirement to copy the content of a textarea into the clipboard. There are two ways to do that:1. Build a dynamic action with custom Javascript code:Copy Text to ClipboardCode example -...
View ArticleSet APEX application name for Dev, Test and Prod environment in the same...
In case you have a small application where development, test and maybe also production environment are on the same database and your applications in this environment distinguish only by the application...
View Article#nextGENTrip18 a Twitter story
I would like to give you a feeling about our #NextGEN community activities by showing you a collection of tweets at the latest event which we participated:The #ApexDay2018 in Stockholm at the SWEOUGWe...
View ArticleConfigure the SQL Developer on Mac OS X for AWS Cloud access
I have struggled a while now to correctly configure my Mac so that I can access an Oracle database in the AWS cloud.Got a couple of strange connection errors:I/O-Fehler: General SSLEngine...
View ArticleFlagge zeigen - IT gegen Rechts
Ich habe lange gezögert und überlegt… Es ist aber Zeit! Zeit mich zu positionieren, damit jedem klar ist, für welche Form von IT ich stehe. In Zeiten wie diesen ist es nicht mehr möglich, sich einfach...
View ArticleAPEX client side error messages - apex.message.showErrors
Since APEX 5.1 we have the ability to create client side messages without the requirement to use a plugin or custom code to create nice looking client side messages.For that requirement the APEX team...
View ArticleEine verrückte Zeit endet...
Hallo zusammen,ich habe leider eine schlechte Nachricht zu verkünden. Ich trete als Leitungskraft innerhalb der DOAG NextGen-Community zurück. Das kommt leider nicht nur für euch überraschend, und...
View ArticleInteractive Grid - Column stretching
Since APEX 18.1 you can define the stretch behavior per column. You can choose between 3 different options:Use Report SettingThe column will use the Stretch Report Setting set by the End User to define...
View ArticleModal Dialogs Part 1 - Intro
In this 5 part series of blog posts I will share my understanding of how you can open modal dialogs with dynamic values.First of all: Why would you need that?There are particular business cases where...
View ArticleDer Fahrplan bis zur APEX Connect 2019
Im Mai 2017 hatte ich euch gefragt worauf ihr euch am meisten freut was die damals anstehende APEX Connect betraf.Nun schreiben wir das Jahr 2019 und bis zur Connect stehen noch einige Events vor der...
View ArticleAnd the APEX Coin goes to...
And the APEX Coin goes to...Before I tell you.. Here is the story behind it!Adrian Png is a Senior APEX developer and he is doing a lot of things for the APEX Community. For that reason he earned the...
View ArticleDie inoffizielle APEX Connect Agenda
Noch etwas mehr als einen Monat bis zur APEX Connect 2019 und so langsam steigt bei allen die Vorfreude. Dieses Jahr wird es neben dem voll gepackten offiziellen Programmplan auch die ein oder andere...
View ArticleInteractive Grid: After Update Trigger
If you want to run a process after the "Interactive Grid" successfully updated all rows you can achieve this with a dynamic action. This can be necessary if you need to update certain columns...
View ArticleInteractive Grid: Validation - Check for duplicated column entries over all rows
I had this situation now a few times and was always to lazy to write it down. :/During my last task within the fabe project I hat to create a validation to check for duplicated entries inside an...
View ArticleutPLSQL - Example Package
A few months ago I got an awesome task to do inside the fabe project:"Create an utPLSQL test package for the app authentication package"Well, I never used utPLSQL before and (due to some hangovers at...
View ArticleAPEX CONNECT 2020 [ONLINE]
You may already noticed..Anyway I'm glad to remind you that next week a full two day APEX online conference will be held:APEX CONNECT 2020 [ONLINE]We will have three parallel tracks divided in...
View Article