A talk about 8 of the main item types and their settings which changed over the last versions of APEX.

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APEX page items in detail
Oliver Lemm
APEX Connect 4th of may 2023

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about me
Department Manager APEX
architect, projectleader and developer

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Textfield (1/5)

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Textfield (2/5) Subtype

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Textfield (3/5) trim and text case
text is changed serverside before loading
text is changed client-side when leaving field
Attention: text changes only based on item setting without user interaction

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Textfield (4/5) Submit when Enter pressed
Attention: Having a FORM with 1 Input it submits by default
Submit a page by Item will use Itemname as Request

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Textfield (5/5) „Disabled“ and „Readonly“
HTML => „disabled“ HTML => „readonly“

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Datepicker (1/7) „History“
jQuery Datepicker
APEX 4.2 – 20.2
Date Picker (jQuery)
NATIVE_DATE_PICKER
Oracle JET Datepicker
APEX 21.1 - 21.2
Date Picker (JET)
NATIVE_DATE_PICKER_JET
APEX Datepicker
APEX 22.2+
Date Picker
NATIVE_DATE_PICKER_APEX
Old Datepicker can‘t be added in new APEX Version.
Copy existing Items in your old apps!

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Datepicker (2/7) customize by attributes

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Datepicker (3/7) customize by component settings

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Datepicker (4/7) custom attributes
By default getting
5 years in future
15 years in past
with year-selection-range= “16“
16 years in future
48 years in past (48 = 3 * 16)

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Datepicker (5/7) customize by JavaScript
Blogposting "Custom Date Picker Formatting" by Steve Muench
Blogposting "Date Ranges" by Steve Muench

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Datepicker (6/7) documentation
generated by jsdoc from apex_22.2apeximageslibrariesapexitem.Datepicker.js

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Datepicker (7/7) first day of week
Inline
Popup

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Textarea (1/2)

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Textearea (2/2) enduser error (fixed in 23.1)

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Item Validation „required setting“ vs „required validation“
client-side, but different look and feel like other validatons
submit and same look and feel like other validations

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Required setting != required Label
+ =
+ =
check metadata or use a tool like Quasto to check this

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Select List

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Autocomplete
only „display column“
shared component not supported
in old versions

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Popup LOV (1/3) inline with defaults

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Popup LOV (2/3) Modal & Size

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List of Values (LOV) settings (not legacy)

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Checkbox

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Radiogroup

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Flows for APEX
BPMN 2.0 Workflows for APEX • Open Source
• Community Driven
• Support available

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Testing APEX Apps is now
as easy as creating them.
• Tailored to APEX
• Use our intuitive LCT-App and don‘t write any test code
• Save a lot of time on regression tests
• Testing on multiple platforms simultaneously

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are you interested?
MT GmbH
Balcke-Dürr-Allee 9
40882 Ratingen
www.mt-itsolutions.com
Oliver Lemm
Department Manager APEX
phone: +49 2102 30 961-164
mail: oliver.lemm@mt-itsolutions.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlemm
@OliverLemm