DSP Blog: Oracle APEX (13)

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A complete guide to #ORCLAPEX Dynamic Actions

Last year, Craig Sykes and I were discussing ideas for presentations at Tech16 and one idea made us quite excited to turn in to a paper for submission.

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Integrating APEX with Outlook via Exchange Web Services (EWS)

Here at DSP, our employee holiday booking and approval system is (unsurprisingly!) an APEX application. As well as this though, we also maintain a calendar in outlook which after..

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Dynamic Selection of Tabs and Region Display Selectors in APEX

I was recently working on a project for a customer who had a requirement for a form to display a tab region (tab container template) with two tab pages, and for the correct tab to..

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Chunked Upload and Download in APEX

Uploading and downloading files is handled well out of the box in APEX. The file upload item type allows you to easily give users the facility to upload files. There is also the..

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APEX Bubble Charts – Finding the Largest Bubble

During a trip to OUG Ireland in March 2016, someone mentioned to me that their users had difficulty in finding the largest bubble using the Bubble Chart plugin found within the..

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Default Hidden Components

One thing I liked from Oracle Forms, which is not available in APEX, is the ability to set a Data Block Item’s Visible property to No. In Oracle Forms it meant that the page item..

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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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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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