by Matt Mulvaney | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Explorer, How to
Adventures in building a Form with APEX_ITEM Recently I needed to build a dynamic form whereby the fields were based on data and it was not possible to use the APEX flex fields plugin. The way forward then was to create input fields on screen using APEX_ITEM. In this...
by Matt Mulvaney | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog, Explorer, Oracle Forms
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 would never show unless the developer programmatically set the...
by Matt Mulvaney | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Explorer, How to, Mobile
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. I loaded up the BBC News App, I noticed a button I regularly used but never really took notice...
by Matt Mulvaney | Mar 30, 2015 | APEX 5.0, Explorer, How to
Component Level Authorization in APEX 5.0 In APEX 4.2, whenever I need to apply an Authorization Scheme to components of a page I tend to create tables for roles, privileges, a role_privilege linker table and usually a user_role table. I then create an Authorization...
