jrXml to PDF - a declarative, pure PL/SQL reporting engine
The task I'm working on APEX since half a year now and i really like it. I also think its quite "complete" regarding its functionality, besides... well, besides the reporting possibilities. There are several available solutions, but either they require...
A generic search-functionality
The task APEX has a nice search-functionality to search all objects in the application by just entering one search-condition. From the result-page of the search you can then directly navigate to the pages where you can edit the found objects. My idea...
APEX
I recently started digging into APEX. Maybe at some time i'm able to place something useful about it here .
A card-like javabean
The task In some application i've seen a layout where the data is presented in a card-like style, having a picture to the left, a title on top and some text containing additional information. I liked the layout, so i decided that this should also be possible...
Pasting Excel-data to a forms-block
The task There was a thread in the Forms-forum these days dealing with Copy&Paste-problems, especially with the question if its possible to copy whole rows into a forms-block. As this is structured data and. of course, forms doesn't know how do deal with...
An "Expand/Collapse"-Canvas Java-Bean
The task In one of the posts on the OTN forms forum last week there was a question of if there is something like an expandable/collapsable Component like its known from outlook. It seems there is no component like this at the time, so i had the idea to...
Making the Statusbar more "visible"
The task One of the things users always complain about is, that errors which occur or messages which are shown are not recognized. For some reason, the statusbar visible by default at the bottom of a forms-application seems to be invisible or at least...
Building a treetable-like form (part 2)
The task My last post was about "building a treetable-like form", it ended with a functional version which didn't look very sophisticated. Lets change that. An example I'll use the same example as in part 1, the EMPLOYEES-table from hr. The approach The...
Building a treetable-like form
The task I made myself familiar with ADF two years ago. Doing so i also had a look at the different components provided by the ADF-faces-UI. I found one component named TreeTable very nice and useful. A TreeTable component shows hierarchical data in a...
Working with trees
The task Trees are a nice feature to present hierarchical data. And, since forms 5 they are available as standard components in forms. A lot of forum posts are related to trees and the way they are populated. I want to show some different techniques to...