ApEx 4.0 Region Selector

Last year on ODTUG I did a presentation where I showed my own implementation of region tabs. These are extra buttons to display regions in a more user friendly way. Suppose you have a lot of regions on your page then you could present a list of buttons, each button will show/hide a region.

I’m pleased to announce that in ApEx 4.0 you can do this declarative by using a new region type: “Region Display Selector”.
To set it up just follow these simple steps:

- First alter any existing region on your page and set the Region Display Selector to YES. You can find this setting under Region Attributes.

- Make a new region of type Region Display Selector

- You can add more regions to the display selector by setting the Region Display Selector to YES

You can see my own implementation of region tabs in the next photo gallery:

ApEx 4.0 available for download

ApEx 4.0 has been released. You can download the new version of ApEx on the website of Oracle.

You can read about the new features of Application Express 4.0 here.

Please mind that the requirements are changed:

Oracle Application Express 4.0 is supported on all Editions (SE1, SE, EE, and XE) of the Oracle database, 10.2.0.3 or higher. Application Express 4.0 can also be used with Oracle Database 10g Express Edition.

First APEX SIG in Belgium (via OBUG) focused on APEX 4.0

Last Thursday (17/06) Oracle Benelux User Group, aka OBUG, organised his first APEX SIG, an initiative of Dimitri Gielis and Roel Hartman. Even though the new version of the product is not yet “in production”, the theme of the day was APEX 4.0.

We, at iAdvise, are one of the early promoters of Oracle Application Express in Belgium.   Since 2006, we implemented already different solutions with APEX. Therefore, we could not  be absent at this event and decided to participate and sponsor this first APEX SIG day.

Olivier Dupont and Jan Huyzentruyt gave a presentation with the title: “APEX 4.0: Feature 135, 184, 301, 315, 348 … How it was before, how it is now !“  The idea was to demonstrate some of the less spectacular new features of Apex 4.0 that (1) makes the life of the APEX developer easier and more productive and (2) allows to create more good looking, to the point web-application. Most of those features we explained by showing how it was in the “old” days, and how (easy) it is with APEX 4.0.

For everybody who could not attend the OBUG session, we published our presentation at slideshare.net:

A report of the day can also be found here.