APEX Forum - Week 21

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 API - interface description: Some developers have a hard time to implement APEX in their environment. How secure do you want it to be?
• Windows Express 3.0 Bug?: Sometimes users are confused about names… APEX, XE, Windows, Oracle database, 10g some many words, so many differences
• Loading images!!!!: How to ask a question? Or better how not to ask a question! Ofcourse the message was clear, but why so many !!!

The most interesting topics:

• SOLVED - Apex + Cocoon = Blank Page?: Sometimes the solution is in the details
• Generate PDF report with HTML data: How to display the content of a CLOB field containing html tags correctly in a pdf generated by BI Publisher.
• Blog or Wiki applications built using APEX: Carl Backstrom started with a wiki application here, but it’s not yet finished. I started with a blog application which you find here, also not finished yet.
• Cookies and sessions: Apps must belong to the same workspace in order to be able to share sessions.
• Using Oracle Text with Apex: Do you want to highlight your searched text, then have a look at this thread

Announcements:

• IE Developer Toolbar out of beta: Posted by Peter Lorenzen, you find the tool here

Tips:

• Date picker location: When you want to customize the calendar pop-up you can use a DHTML calendar as shown here

• Creating an index of all pages in the application: It shows again that the APEX dictionary is very powerful but not that known at the moment.

If you saw something in the forums I should have included, you’re free to put a comment.