Colin Archer

Colin is a Senior Development Consultant at DSP-Explorer with 20 years’ experience of analysis, design, and development of bespoke Oracle applications for a wide variety of business functions. Building on his previous experience of Forms and PL/SQL he is now focusing on developing high quality fit for purpose solutions using APEX.

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Latest Posts

APEX 24.1 New Features Roundup

Over the past few months, we have published several blogs on the new features released in APEX 24.1. In case you missed any of them, you can read them here:

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Using APEX Workflows

APEX 23.2 introduced the new Workflow Designer, which works with the existing Task Definitions to create workflows and automate business processes. My colleague, James Sanna,..

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Exporting Custom Interactive Reports via REST

On a recent project, I was tasked with developing a module within an APEX application to receive a JSON file via a REST API. This was so it could be manipulated on screen before..

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Setting up OCI Bucket storage and accessing from APEX

I recently needed to set up and use OCI bucket storage for use with an APEX application. Although I found some helpful reference guides out there, they all appeared a little out..

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REST Improvements for APEX since 20.1

It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog on REST features in APEX, in fact, it was way back in 2019! Since 2020 there have been five APEX releases, which collectively contain..

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Native Maps in APEX 21.1

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award-winning application development and consultancy services. Version 21.1 of APEX has recently been..

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APEX 20.2 New Reporting Features

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . A pre-production version of APEX 20.2 has..

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APEX REST Enabled Forms

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Following on from my previous blog, today..

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Using REST Data Sources for APEX List of Values

There have been many new REST features and improvements added to APEX over the past few releases, so I thought now would be a good time to take a look at some of the newer REST..

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