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Oct 27, 2015 1:28:31 PM

Upgrading to APEX 5

I have recently been upgrading our internal applications to APEX 5 and thought it would be interesting to write a blog about some of the issues that initially came up whilst doing..

Oct 12, 2015 10:26:10 AM

Legacy Breadcrumbs

The Universal Theme is great – no doubting it awesomeness. However one thing that isn’t my perfect cup of tea is the new Breadcrumb Template. It’s slightly frustrating that there..

Oct 1, 2015 12:03:03 PM

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..

Sep 21, 2015 9:56:37 AM

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..

Aug 18, 2015 2:43:35 PM

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..

Jul 22, 2015 10:34:01 AM

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.

Jun 16, 2015 10:03:46 AM

Generating JSON in APEX 5.0

In a previous blog I outlined how with APEX 5.0 you can now use the APEX_JSON package to parse JSON responses in your APEX application. For this blog I will show you how easy it..

May 20, 2015 3:05:44 PM

Accessing values from the left hand side of an APEX Shuttle

In APEX, the value of the shuttle item is a colon delimited string representing the contents of the right hand side.

May 13, 2015 11:17:24 AM

Creating an Address Search in APEX

I recently had a request to implement a comprehensive UK address search in an APEX application without using a dedicated API such as the Royal Mail PAF. The first place I looked..

Apr 27, 2015 10:00:03 AM

Creating a Modal Dialog in APEX 5.0

Modal dialogs are a useful feature for all kinds of APEX applications and with the release of APEX 5, they are supported natively. You can easily implement one as part of a “Form..