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APEX App Object Dependencies
Got a lot of APEX applications, and/or a schema with lots of objects? Not sure exactly what database objects are used by which application? Not sure dropping a particular schema object might break...
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Some musings on camping
Wherein I natter on about gear and how I choose what to buy.Perhaps with a point to make about software development. Bilung Pool, Murchison At least once a year we pack the Prado with a tent, gear and...
View ArticleExport CLOB as a SQL Script #JoelKallmanDay
Quite often I will need to export some data from one system, such as system setup metadata, preferences, etc. that need to be included in a repository and imported when the application is installed...
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Protect your APEX app from URL Tampering – in just a few clicks
Recently I’ve been reviewing and updating my knowledge of APEX security, especially protection from URL tampering. I’ve read the documentation, a number of blogs, and heard from people with experience...
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Reusable Region as a Modal Page
On a number of pages throughout my application, I needed to build a region containing a fairly complex set of items, along with dynamic actions and other controls to provide a friendly editing...
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I didn’t change anything… yet I get “Unsaved changes”?
I had an APEX page based on a Form region that I’d built by hand (rather than using the wizard). I was wondering why the user always got an unexpected warning “Changes that you have made may not be...
View ArticleProtected: (draft) APEX Map Region vs. Google Map Plugin
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ReportMap Release 1.5
The latest version of the ReportMap APEX plugin is now v1.5. The plugin now supports Overlays, which allows you to add almost any arbitrary HTML or image content to particular points on the map. For...
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Speaking at AUSOUG 2021
The Australian Oracle User Group is hosting a series of webinars this year and on 17 February I’ll be speaking about how to add an interactive Google Map to your APEX application. If you’re using APEX...
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ReportMap Release 1.4
Release 1.4 of the JK64 Report Google Map R1 has been released with a number of bug fixes and enhancements. You can review the changes here:...
View ArticleSaved Interactive Reports, Lost and Found
Sometimes we can too quickly say “No” when we should take a moment to think about whether we can actually say “Yes”. This was one of those times for me. We had just gone live with a fairly big system...
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ReportMap Release 1.2
Version 1.2 of the ReportMap Google Map plugin has been released today. While the rest of you have been idling away under Covid-19 restrictions, I’ve been happy as a clam working on some exciting...
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Font Awesome v5 alongside Font APEX
Font APEX is preferred most of the time but sometimes there are icons I really want to use which are not (yet) included. For these cases I want to load the latest Font Awesome library. It is possible...
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Friendly URL structure
Oracle has updated apex.oracle.com to APEX 20.1 which includes among other features the new “Friendly URL” option. The legacy URL structure concatenated a string of parameters into a single “p”...
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Next/Previous Record: how APEX does it
It’s not a common requirement in my experience, but it does come up every now and then: a customer is happy with a simple Report + Form but when they open a record, they want to be able to make their...
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Loading large GeoJSON objects
A good question – how to load fairly largish GeoJSON documents into a Google Map in APEX? To investigate this I started by downloading a source of GeoJSON data for test purposes – one containing the...
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Getting Started with APEX Plugins
There is a great deal you can build in APEX without even thinking about using a plugin. The development platform has an excellent range of built-in functionality and components so that almost all user...
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User-editable Application Setting
A nice addition to APEX release 18.1 is the Application Settings feature. This allows the developer to define one or more configuration values that are relevant to a particular application. In a...
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Show null for switch items
An application I maintain needed a checklist feature added. I wanted to show a “Yes / No” switch for a list of checklist items. Initially, when the record is created, the checklist is populated with...
View Article“No Primary Key item has been defined for form region”
Otherwise reported as “WWV_FLOW_FORM_REGION.NO_PRIMARY_KEY_ITEM” or merely “Internal error”, this bug caused me to waste hours of investigation, twice, because a simple Google search was not returning...
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