Learn how to accelerate the development process by using the new Session Overrides APEX feature and one of the Visual Studio Code extensions. What is Session Overrides Session Overrides are a convenient way for developers to quickly change values in the session that the APEX engine is typically responsible for, like File Paths, Additional Files … Continue reading Speed up your APEX development using Session Overrides and VS Code
I hate it when I can't remember how I did certain thing in the past. And I have to spend precious time "reinventing the wheel" as the famous saying states. One of those things is conditionally change the text colour or background colour of certain cells in APEX Reports (Classic Report, Interactive Report or Interactive … Continue reading Styling APEX Report cells conditionally
In this (and the next) blog posts I will demonstrate different techniques for validating user input in Oracle APEX. I bet you needed to validate an item - for example if the user has entered a valid e-mail address, a valid number, a valid name or phone number, a valid license plate, personal id number … Continue reading APEX validations: Email address
Did you ever needed a chat region for your Oracle APEX application? There is actually a Classic Report Comments template that produces almost that. With few simple steps you can turn Comments template into a real chat. Follow the steps below to create an excellent Chat region in APEX using just built-in components and a … Continue reading Creating a Chat region in Oracle APEX
With the new version (21.2) of APEX, came the built-in PWA support for your APEX applications. PWA stands for Progressive Web App and is a concept that allows your Web Application (an APEX app) to look like a Native App (an iOS or Android app). This includes local resources caching (like Javascript and CSS files), … Continue reading Create a custom offline page for your APEX PWA in 21.2
One of the things, often overlooked and missed in projects is good documentation. Benefits of having such are obvious, but many times developers simply skip it, because of the lack of time or managing multiple projects at a time. That's why I think that documenting should go along with the development and be a continuous … Continue reading Generating Documentation out of your PL/SQL packages
To me, the way an APEX application looks, could be the key to making people use it. There are many examples where a great app with great features is unpopular, simply because it doesn't bring the best user experience. A simple fact about APEX and the developers using it is that the majority of us … Continue reading 5 tips to help you build better APEX user interfaces
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