apex 4.0: feature 135, 184, 301, 315, … how it was before, how it is now ! (apex sig 2010 - obug)

APEX 4.0

Feature 135, 184, 301, 315, … How it was before, How it is now !

By Jan Huyzentruyt & Olivier Dupont

your oracle solu+ons partner

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APEX - Statement of Direction

“Oracle Application Express 4.0 will focus on declarative support for Web

2.0 features as well as improved usability and simplified development.”

Last Updated: February 2, 2010

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Agenda

  Introduction

  Features for “Improved usability”

  Features for “Simplified development”

 Multi-Lingual Applications

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iAdvise  Started in 2004

(member of Cronos-group)  > 55 consultants

 Since 2006: APEX Core Team

 O2U (the Nederlands)

 Oracle Gold Partner

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New Features Descriptions

http://tryapexnow.com/apex/f?p=104 5

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  Introduction


  Features for“Simplified development”


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Feature 242  Modernize Themes:

Improve the base Themes supplied with Application Express

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Feature 242

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Feature 242

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Feature 242  New look for Sample Application

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Feature: 284   Improve pop-up help dialog

Modernize the look of the pop-up help dialog.

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Feature: 284

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Feature: 284

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Feature 320:  Replacement for script editors

The editor used for editing packages, procedures, views, ... in SQL Workshop and scripts in Supporting Objects has been replaced by a new editor which now support syntax highlighting, bracket highlighting, ... The new editor works now with all modern browsers as well.

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Feature 320:

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Feature 320:

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Feature 36, 49, 50, 301   Feature 36: Interactive Reports

Improve and extend the capabilities of interactive reports based on customer feedback and intuition.

  49: Email attachment   50: HTML File   301: Saved Reports

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Interactive Reports: Before

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Interactive Reports: After

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Interactive Reports: Subscription

Result in my mail-box

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DEMO

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Improved Charting   Feature 24: Charting engine

Latest flash chart engine (AnyChart 5.x) to improve the functionality and visual presentation

  Feature 25: New Gantt Charts 2 types of Gantt Charts can now be defined declaratively: Project & Resource Gantt charts

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Feature 25: Resource Gantt

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http://tryapexnow.com/apex/f?p=103:12

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Agenda

  Introduction


  Features for “Simplified development”


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Many small features   Feature 271:

Branch to self when no branch found   Feature 244:

Support #LABEL# placeholder in page item validation error messages

  ... Making developer life easier !   Number Items, Date Pickers, Required

Properties …

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DEMO

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Feature 106 & 135   135: Apex Advisor

The Advisor is responsible for checking the integrity and quality of your application.

  106: Application Search This allows a developer to search the meta data of the current application and is designed to aid navigation and debugging.

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Application Adviser: Before   Write own query on APEX Dictionary Views

to do quality control

  On development standards & conventions   On good practices

 Build a GUI on top of those queries

  In-house QA application developed in APEX

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Application Advisor: After  Originally developed by Patrick Wolf

as separate tool (Apex Essentials)

  Integrate APEX Advisor into the APEX Builder and has two different entry points:   Check application   Check single page

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Application Search: Before  Open export file with editor and

search

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Application Search: After  Google-like search on all metadata

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Feature 184   Load excel .xls file into collection

Excel spreadsheets can be directly uploaded into APEX collection(s). If the spreadsheet has multiple pages, each page can optionally be saved in a separate collection or in one single collection. In order to utilize this feature and the options you will need to set parameters in the configuration file for the APEX listener.

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Load Excel: Before …  Native .xls not possible

You need to convert to .csv  Upload CSV

  For Developer:

  For End User:   Write your own custom PL/SQL solution

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Load Excel: After …  Direct Upload in APEX collection(s)

  One or multiple excel sheets will be possible

  You need the APEX Listener   Set specific parameters in the

configuration file (apex-config.xml)

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Load Excel: After …   create a page with

  a “File Browse item”   a button

  request value = 'XLS2COLLECTION’   A report region with a similar query:

 … and this should work

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Feature 315:  Globalization

Enhancement made to improve globalization support.

  Language Derived from “session”   Facelift “Translation Process”   Translation Dashboard

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Translation Process: step 4

 Still an manual process, external to APEX

  You must use some kind of XML editor   Laborious -Time consuming

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 Use our xTra4o-tool (www.iadvise.be/xtra4o) “Dictionary”-based Integrated with google-translate

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