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APEX 4.0 – New Features Application and Description

If you didn’t have time to review APEX 4.0 Early Adopter I and II, but you want to have a quick look what new features will be in APEX 4.0, you can do that now…There is an APEX 4.0 New Features Application which shows a lot of the new features in act…

Posted 14 March 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Word count in Pages (OSX)

Sometimes it’s hard to find something if you don’t use it that much.I was searching for a Word and Character count in Pages (OSX). Pages is like Word, but than from Apple. Anyway, in Pages most nice “things” are under the Inspector icon.The first icon …

Posted 12 March 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX 4.0 EA2 – Websheets

In APEX 4.0 EA2 the Websheet functionality is enabled. Websheets allow you to share information with others in a very quick, user friendly and secure way.Let’s have a look at an example. If you go to Application Builder in APEX 4.0 there is a new type …

Posted 04 March 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Application Express 4.0 EA2 live

A few hours after my previous post, APEX 4.0 EA2 hit the air.The url to this new version of APEX 4.0 is still the same: http://tryapexnow.com/apex/I’ll start some proper testing next week, but if you already want to read what is changed, you find more …

Posted 27 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX 4.0 EA2 (with Websheets) very very close…

The APEX Development likes to hint and build up our expectations ;-) It looks like APEX 4.0 Early Adopter 2 is almost there… a couple of hours? a couple of days?Fact is that Joel is doing some tests on the EA2 build and reading Patrick’s tweets says e…

Posted 26 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX Listener EA2 with native Excel Upload

Kris Rice blogged about the new version of the APEX Listener here and here. The APEX Listener will become the preferred way of connecting to APEX (before Apache and the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway). If you are not familiar with the APEX Listener, you find …

Posted 26 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Get me a Suite at ODTUG!

If you are going to ODTUG this year and you want me to do a favor… Put in my name “Dimitri Gielis” in “How did you hear about the conference?” when you register.The person who has the most “referrals” gets a Suite at the Marriott Wardman Park!I’m not…

Posted 26 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Branches with Conditions When Button Pressed – be careful

Consider this example; we have a typical APEX Report with Form.When we click on the Create button we come into the Form and normally you would see just one Create button. If you hit that button you get back into the Report.In some projects I use a “Cre…

Posted 25 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX 4.0: Dynamic Actions – Part 2

If you are interested in a Standard Dynamic Action in APEX 4.0, you should read this blog post.In this post I’ll cover how to create an Advanced Dynamic Action. ‘Advanced’ allows you to create more complex native dynamic actions such as ‘Add Class’ or…

Posted 22 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Bandwidth problem? investigate your log files

On some of my APEX sites I seem to have a bandwidth problem. Not that the sites become slow, they just eat so much bandwidth without reason.We set a limit on the bandwidth a site can take a month, just so we are in control about the hosting/bandwidth f…

Posted 16 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °