How to pass data into and return data from an APEX dialog is something that comes up from time to time on the APEX forum. I have not seen a comprehensive treatment of this topic so decided to work up an example of the various possibilities. [Updated 23-May-2017 to reflect 5.1.1 and add detail for […]
This topic has been motivated by a few different APEX forum threads as well as direct questions from teammates. Here I will show how to add a menu button to each row of an interactive report that will open a menu and the menu item actions will be specific to the row. The above pictured […]
As a developer I love how easy it is to create dialogs with APEX 5.0. But as a user I get a little annoyed that I have to move and resize them each time I open a dialog. Today I’ll show how to persist dialog position and size for the duration of a browser session.
My guess is that if asked what APEX 5 UI feature is the most complex, most people would say Page Designer. It is true that Page Designer is big, as in a lot of code, but it is also very modular and you can understand each part and then how they work together. Another good […]