APEX 5.1 features - AUSOUG Connect 2016

Lino Schildenfeld 10 - 11th November 2016

APEX 5.1Things that will make us happy

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AUSOUG Connect 2016

...in short

APEX R&D manager for NZ and AU

10+ years Oracle development experience

APEX Blogger and enthusiast

NZ APEX meetup organizer

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Oracle Application Express 5.1What is new? Better?

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Page Designer Deprecating component view in 5.2 will be a tab under Layout Two pane mode Simplified wizards back to essentials Fewer steps, less options

for example

create form page using wizard has 4 less steps etc.

Automatically adds refresher between main and modal page Refining current error message guidance to be more intuitive

Plus…

New Page Attribute “Reload on Submit” JSON format used for submitting the page Multi file upload support Tabular form is moved to legacy replaced with IG Asynchronous Dynamic Actions

DEMO

Universal Theme New Font APEX Icon Library Right to left support New Theme styles added New Templates and more options Improved packaged apps Per-user Theme preference Live Template Options Dropped Color Wheel

DEMO

Interactive Grid - IG Freezing columns feature on IG and IR Master - detail - detail Ability to add authorization for your saved report views Disable certain columns All data types available in forms will be supported including cascading LOVs

Different APIs available to manipulate IG directly from code Preserving changes until Save is clicked

DEMO

Pagination options

Load as scroll Scroll and load more Standard report pagination support

DEMO

Oracle JET JavaScript based oracle JET data visualization components engine Redesigned by Oracle Full HTML5 Work well on mobile applications and other devices Gant and maps still using old AnyChart engine and plugins Example on packaged app chart demo Please join Scott’s session for more detailed overview

DEMO

Further info and references apexea.oracle.com ODTUG KSOPE 2016 presentations Vincent Morneau Asynchronous demo

http://vmorneau.me/javascript-promises-in-apex/

Other blogs and videos

http://nuijten.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/apex-51-features-shown-at-doag.html

http://nyoug.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/msewtz.apex51newfeatures.pdf

http://rokitta.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/unconfirmed-new-features-apex-51.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-UIAbHjQUg

www.apexofficeprint.com

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