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Apr 20, 2015 10:00:50 AM

Considerations Upgrading Applications to APEX 5.0

In April 2015, Joel Kallman, the Director of Software Development for Oracle APEX, successfully upgraded the asktom.oracle.com web site to APEX 5 without making any changes.

Apr 13, 2015 10:00:40 AM

The updated APEX 5.0 Rich Text Editor Part 2

Since the publication of our blog “The updated APEX 5.0 Rich Text Editor” which featured the Rich Text Editor in EA3 we have subsequently seen the launch of APEX 5.0..

Apr 7, 2015 10:00:42 AM

JavaScript Debugging in APEX 5 (at last)

In APEX 4.2, I would debug JavaScript code using the alert() function. I would use this to show information about variables and the steps taken through code.

Mar 30, 2015 9:58:29 AM

Component Level Authorization in APEX 5.0

In APEX 4.2, whenever I need to apply an Authorization Scheme to components of a page I tend to create tables for roles, privileges, a role_privilege linker table and usually a..

Mar 23, 2015 8:45:24 AM

List of new database objects in APEX 5

Along with launch of the fantastic APEX 5.0 Early Adopter 3 came a tweet from Joel Kallman describing the location of the APEX 5.0 BETA Documentation.

Mar 16, 2015 8:45:36 AM

The updated APEX 5.0 Rich Text Editor

In this blog; we are going to examine the new features of the Rich Text Editor item within APEX 5.0 EA3

Mar 9, 2015 8:45:34 AM

Alternative Save Before Exit

Prompting the user to save before exiting the page is functionality that isn’t unusual for developers and users to request from an APEX application.

Mar 1, 2015 8:45:38 AM

Combining Validations with Dynamic Actions

APEX has an extensive set of built-in validations to capture every eventuality. They pop up an informative notification message and can direct the user directly to the fault.

Feb 23, 2015 10:27:47 AM

Creating a Mobile App in Apex 5.0

Since the release of APEX 5.0 EA3 I’ve been looking into the updated mobile theme and what we can produce with it. In this blog I will show you how I created a small demo..

Feb 16, 2015 8:45:55 AM

Parsing JSON in APEX 5.0

As part of the APEX 5.0 Beta documentation there is a new APEX_JSON package available. This is a welcome addition that helps us integrate our applications with web services that..