APEX Forum - Week 18

My goal is to put some links to the forum that took my attention in the last week. Sometimes these posts made me laugh, sometimes they made me cry and some of them I found really interesting.

The most funny posts:

• ApEx vs ASP.NET AJAX: a discussion about what’s better… the initial poster has also some things he would like to see improved.
• Authorization Scheme checking before login: Especially this sentence: “That loud noise you heard was me slapping my forehead and saying “D’OH”.”

The most interesting topics:

• Export Excel instead of .csv: another way of implementing the export to Excel (via html tables instead of separated file) - thanks to Denes Kubicek for this package - now available unwrapped.
• Changing Icon in a Report using javascript: another test of Denes
• TRICK: Dynamic Item Help Text as Tooltip: instead of clicking on an item label to get help, this thread describes how to show the help as a tooltip.
• Handle ORA- errors: Already got a nice red box in APEX when an error occurred? this thread discuss how to solve that.
• No content in files through BI Publisher: some have problems with the integration of BI Publisher and APEX. Some hints in this thread.

Announcements:

• Standalone BI Publisher is now available for Windows: here
• Joel Kallman (APEX development team) becomes Oracle ACE: here