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Oracle APEX Cookbook : Second Edition

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Oct, 2013 | 444 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle APEX Cookbook Second Edition
Oracle APEX Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Creating a Basic APEX Application
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
Controlling 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
2
Themes and Templates
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
3
Extending APEX
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
Calling APEX from an Oracle Form
Creating a data upload page
Using shipped files
4
Creating Websheet Applications
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
5
APEX Plug-ins
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 an authorization plug-in
6
Creating Multilingual APEX Applications
Creating Multilingual APEX Applications
Introduction
Creating a translatable application
Using XLIFF files
Switching languages
Translating data in an application
7
APEX APIs
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
8
Using Web Services
Using Web Services
Introduction
Creating a SOAP web service reference
Creating a REST web service reference
Building a page on a web service reference
Publishing a RESTful web service
9
Publishing from APEX
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
10
APEX Environment
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 Tomcat
Creating an error handling
Using packaged applications
11
APEX Administration
APEX Administration
Introduction
Creating a workspace manually
Creating a workspace by request
Creating a user
Adding a schema to your workspace
Setting up a system message
Setting up a workspace announcement
Setting up news items on the home page
Creating a site-specific task list
Creating a public theme
Locking a workspace
Creating table APIs
12
Team Development
Team Development
Introduction
Creating a list of features
Creating and assigning To-dos
Keeping track of bugs in the Bugtracker
Creating Milestones
Using Feedback
Using follow-ups
13
HTML5 and CSS3
HTML5 and CSS3
Introduction
Using a responsive HTML5 and CSS3 template
Creating a form with HTML5 item types
Creating a UI with drag-and-drop
Creating storage events
Geolocation – creating a tracker
Creating a video plug-in
Creating HTML5 charts
14
Mobile
Mobile
Introduction
Creating a smartphone application
Creating a hybrid application
Creating a list view report
Creating a mobile form
Using mobile item types
Creating a mobile calendar
Creating a date scroller with the Mobiscroll plug-in
Uploading images using the camera on the device
Using jQuery Mobile to fetch current GPS location
Creating swipe events
Index
Index

About the Authors

Marcel van der Plas was born in 1969 in Eindhoven and still lives there. He has been an Oracle Consultant for over 15 years. Marcel has worked on many projects with Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, and Oracle Reports. Later on, he became interested in APEX and did some projects with APEX. Marcel has been working on an APEX project for an electronics company for over 2 years.

Marcel currently works for Ciber. Other companies he worked for are Atos Origin and Whitehorses. For Whitehorses, he wrote some articles (White books) about Oracle.

Marcel wrote the Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook, Packt Publishing, with Michel van Zoest. You can find APEX blogposts from Marcel at http://orclapex.blogspot.com. Besides that, you can follow Marcel on Twitter (@whmvdp).

Michel van Zoest is a consultant with years of experience in building web applications using Oracle technologies such as Oracle Web Forms, Oracle Designer, MOD_PLSQL, ADF, SOA Suite, and of course, APEX.

He is one of the first Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Experts in the world. He has used his APEX knowledge in projects for companies ranging in size from a single employee to large multinationals. His experience in these projects has been used in the realization of this book.

Michel currently works at Whitehorses in the Netherlands and runs his own blog at http://www.aboutapex.com. He also blogs at the company website on http://blog.whitehorses.nl and he regularly writes White book articles (in Dutch) for Whitehorses.

You can reach Michel on Twitter at @mvzoest or e-mail him at .

First of all, I would like to thank my co-author, Marcel van der Plas. Thanks to the easy way that we could work together, the writing of this book has gone as smooth as possible.

I would like to thank the people at Packt Publishing for offering me the chance to write this book. It has been a long process with a lot of hard work, but I'm very happy with the result. I also would like to thank Douwe Pieter van den Bos for introducing me and Marcel to Packt Publishing and his invaluable help in the early stages of the book.

Furthermore, I would like to thank all reviewers for their hard work in reviewing our drafts. This book has become so much better; thanks to 
you guys.

I would also like to thank my employer, Whitehorses, for the support that I have been given.

And last but not the least, I would like to thank my family for their love and support. Without the help of my wife Jamila and the "dikke kroelen" from my daughters Naomi and Aniek and my son Kris, this result would not have been possible.

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