On this week’s episode, Anton briefly comes in from vacation to join Hayden in greeting special guest and Insum alumni Vincent Morneau, who is now part of the APEX team at Oracle. In his tip,
Vincent treats us to a peek under the hood of recently released APEX 21.1. APEX’s Universal Theme is completely re-written in this latest release in order to leverage a new technology called CSS variables. One of the challenges when writing a theme is to make all components consistent with each other and the best way to do that is to use the concept of a variable, like in other programming languages.
Vincent demonstrates.
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APEX Instant Tips #147: Why are Ajax Callback processes so hard to use?
Ajax callbacks are hard to use: Learn the javascript and be careful about syntax. Marwa and...
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APEX #146: APEX Instant Tips #146: Extending Faceted Search
Hosts Anton and Marwa talk about how to make a page item look and behave like...
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APEX Instant Tips #145: How to know if the data in your Interactive Grid row changed
:APEX$ROW_STATUS is a pseudo column that can be used in PL/SQL, just like any other interactive...
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APEX Instant Tips #144: When to_date
To_date, To_number, and To_timestamp stem from how APEX stores and treats Session State. Anton and Marwa...
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APEX Instant Tips #143: Javascript and css from pl/sql
In this episode, Marwa and Special guest Eglé describe how to add javascript code and CSS...
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APEX Instant Tips #142: LOV additional columns
Michelle sits in for Anton this week as Marwa shows you how to leverage additional columns...
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APEX Instant Tips #141: The APEX qAsk application
The APEX qAsk application can be used for live surveys. Anton and Marwa demonstrate and point...
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APEX Instant Tip #140: A tip for when merging working copies
When merging a copy back into an APEX app, make sure to unclick anything that says...
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