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Modal Dialog Tips and Tricks

I have been developing in APEX 5 since its release and have used the new native modal popup windows in almost every application I have created. While the functionality is inbuilt..

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Flexible Field functionality

Flex Fields From time to time, the users may wish to be able to extend their application by adding extra fields to tables without contacting IT to perform a change request. For..

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APEX 5.0 Packaged Application Plugins

The 35 packaged applications contained within APEX 5.0.1 are not only full production ready applications, but also hold a wealth of features which you can introduce in to your..

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Be Careful With Oracle SE2 – Especially With RAC!

Updated 02/05/2019

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Calculating Mileage in an APEX 5.0 Application

As part of our recent redevelopment of our Oracle Forms expenses application into APEX 5.0, I looked into creating a mileage calculator using the Google Maps API. This blog..

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The future of Oracle Forms

Watch our recent webinar: https://explorer.co.uk/oracle-application-development/oracle-apex-for-forms/

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Adding a Mobile Ellipsis button

Following a day of hard work building APEX applications, I jumped on the train home and started catching up with the latest news & sport.

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Why upgrade to APEX 5

Whilst performing my research I read in the Migration Guide about the many reasons why you should update to the Universal Theme but not many on why to update to APEX 5.

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Making pie charts the same size in APEX

If you have ever created a pie chart in APEX you know how easy it is to plug in a SQL statement and get a good looking chart with a host of customization options all native within..

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Breaking out of beginner charting

So you may have created several charts within APEX already, and there are plenty of templates available for these such as Line, Bar, Stacked, etc.

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