PacktLib: Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook

Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Creating a Basic APEX Application

Introduction

Creating an APEX 4.0 application

Creating a simple form page

Creating a simple report

Implementing an interactive report

Creating a chart

Creating a map chart

Creating a navigation bar

Creating a list of values

Including different item types

Protecting a page using an authorization scheme

Securing an application with Authentication

Control the display of regions and items with Dynamic Actions

Creating a computation

Creating an automated row fetch with a page process

Putting some validation in a form

Creating a report with PL/SQL Dynamic Content

Themes and Templates

Introduction

Creating your own theme

Importing a theme

Creating a custom template

Including images in your application

Referencing CSS classes in your application

Controlling the layout

Extending APEX

Introduction

Adding JavaScript code to your application

Creating a tag cloud with AJAX

Creating visual effects with JavaScript libraries

Enhancing your application with the Google API

Including Google maps

Embedding multimedia objects in your application

Creating a region selector

Sending mail via APEX

Uploading and downloading files

Creating Websheet Applications

Introduction

Creating a websheet application

Creating a page in a websheet

Adding a navigation section to a page

Implementing a datagrid

Allowing multiple users access to a websheet

Creating an enhanced datagrid from a spreadsheet

APEX Plug-ins

Introduction

Creating an item type plug-in

Creating a region type plug-in

Creating a dynamic action plug-in

Creating a process type plug-in

Creating Multilingual APEX Applications

Introduction

Creating a translatable application

Using XLIFF files

Switching languages

Translating data in an application

APEX APIs

Introduction

Updating a table with the hidden primary key

Reading a checkbox programmatically

Creating help functionality with apex_application.help

Counting clicks with apex_util.count_click

Setting default item settings with apex_ui_default_update

Creating a background process with apex_plsql_job

Using Webservices

Introduction

Creating a SOAP webservice reference

Creating a REST webservice reference

Building a page on a webservice reference

Publishing from APEX

Introduction

Exporting to a comma separated file

Creating a PDF report

Creating a report query

Creating a report layout using Oracle BI Publisher

Linking the report layout to the report query

Calling a report from a page

APEX Environment

Introduction

Setting up a development environment using subscriptions

Debugging an APEX application

Debugging an APEX application remotely

Deploying an application with SQL Developer

Setting up version control with APEX and SVN

Setting up a production environment using an Apache proxy

Setting up the APEX Listener on Weblogic

APEX Administration

Introduction

Creating a workspace manually

Creating a workspace by request

Creating a user

Adding a schema to your workspace

Setting a system message

Setting a workspace announcement

Setting news items on the home page

Creating a site-specific task list

Creating a public theme

Locking a workspace

Team Development

Introduction

Creating a list of features

Creating and assigning To-do's

Keeping track of bugs in the Bugtracker

Creating Milestones

Using Feedback

Using Follow-ups