Interactive Grid Tour App
At Kscope 19 in Seattle and APEX Connect in Bonn I presented a beginners session on interactive grid where I demonstrated an app that gives a guided tour of the interactive grid features. As promised...
View ArticleAPEX IG Cookbook Update for 19.2
It’s that time again. A new release of APEX brings an updated IG Cookbook. Try out APEX 19.2 at apex.oracle.com and then download release 6 of the IG Cookbook for 19.2. If you are still using an older...
View ArticleAll the Things That Pop Up
At UKOUG Techfest19 I gave a presentation with the same title as this article. The topic is about menus, dialogs, and popups. I created a sample app for the presentation that I promised to make...
View ArticleAPEX Navigation Menu Experiments Part 1
Out of the box APEX provides a number of useful, declarative, good looking navigation options. There is the side navigation menu tree and the top navigation menu bar, top navigation tabs, and new in...
View ArticleNew Theme
I picked a new WordPress theme with better accessibility while still responsive. Hope it helps.
View ArticleAPEX Navigation Menu Experiments Part 2
This is part 2 in a series of articles exploring navigation techniques in Oracle Application Express. Check out part 1 first if you missed it. Here I will show how to dynamically fetch new child nodes...
View ArticleAPEX Navigation Menu Experiments Part 3
This is the third and final article in the navigation menu experiments series. Check out parts 1 and 2. In this experiment the navigation menu dynamically changes between side and top positions. As in...
View ArticleAPEX Template Directives
In APEX 20.2 you will see in the help text for a few properties “Additional Information… Supports Template Directives”. Here I will explain all about this new functionality, the motivation, where to...
View ArticleAPEX Fancy Facets
At a recent Oracle APEX Offices Hours I presented (@18:38) the new 20.2 features of Faceted Search. I showed the new facet value charts and the new facet control types, input field and groups of single...
View ArticleAPEX 21.2 New JavaScript APIs #JoelKallmanDay
It shouldn’t be long now before the next release of Oracle APEX, 21.2, is available on apex.oracle.com. There will be plenty of buzz around the big new features in 21.2 but here I’ll introduce some new...
View ArticleInteractive Grid Validation
The editable Interactive Grid is intended to edit data that is already valid. This is no different from an APEX form page. The form or grid displays valid data for the user to enter/edit and validation...
View ArticleExploring new APIs in APEX 22.1
Yay APEX 22.1 is released! There are plenty of great new features. One of my favorites is the Region Sort Page Item. Something that doesn’t get a lot of attention is new functionality in the APIs. So I...
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