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- 1. APEX Reporting on external data sources Rodrigo Mesquita
- 2. We Solve Problems with Oracle Technology We Develop Bespoke Applications We Support our Customers
- 3. Rodrigo Mesquita • Development Consultant with many years experience in Oracle technologies such as PL/SQL, Forms, Reports and APEX, across a variety of business areas. • Trainer, Speaker, Blogger, Consultant and Developer. • Promote Oracle APEX.
- 4. Agenda A Look at APEX Web Sources Creating a Web Source Integrating APEX and a third party app (Trello) Web Credentials Dashboard on an external source (Twitter) Cache and performance
- 5. A Look at APEX Web Sources
- 6. APEX 18.1 Report Sources Web Sources • Local Database • Remote Database •Web Source
- 7. What is an APEX Web Source? Web Sources Web Sources enable developers to access REST services or generic JSON/XML data feeds and use the data in APEX components.
- 8. Where? Web Sources Interactive Reports Classic reports Calendars Jet Charts + Trees, reflow report and column toggle report
- 9. • URL Endpoint •GET,PUT,POST,DELETE Web Source API JSON/XML Response Metadata • Basic Credentials • oAuth2 Credentials Web Credentials
- 10. Data Actions Web Sources • Fetch Multiple Rows • Fetch Single Row • Insert Row • Update Row • Delete Row
- 11. Creating a Web Source (Post Code)
- 12. GETWeb Source API JSON Response Metadata URL End Point: https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/LS166EB Creating a Web Source Post Code API
- 13. Creating a Web Source
- 15. Cache and Performance Caching • Disabled • For All Users • By User • By Session
- 16. Cache and Performance Invalidate When • Specific amount of time (Minutes) • By frequency FREQ=HOURLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYSECOND=0
- 17. Integrating APEX and a third party app (Trello)
- 18. Integrate APEX and a third part app What’s Trello? Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards Board List List Card Card Card
- 19. API JSON Response Metadata Integrate APEX and a third part app Trello API GET Parameter: List ID Web Source GET Parameter: board ID Web Source GETWeb SourceBoard List Card TokenAuthent ication
- 20. Integrate APEX and a third part app Classic report Classic report Classic report Boards Lists Cards Hidden item: BOARD_ID Hidden item: LIST_ID https://api.trello.com/1/lists/:LIST_ID/cards https://api.trello.com/1/boards/:BOARD_ID/lists https://api.trello.com/1/member/me/boards?&key=:KEY&token=:TOKEN REFRESH REFRESH
- 21. Integrate APEX and a third part app Classic Report Cards Template select ename as CARD_TITLE, job as CARD_TEXT, ‘javascript:SetId(id);’ as CARD_LINK from emp
- 22. Web Credentials
- 23. Authentication Types Web Credentials • Basic Authentication • oAuth2 Client Credentials
- 24. Web Credentials • Credentials are stored at the workspace-level and are visible in all applications. • When exporting an app, APEX exports the credentials. • When importing an app, if credentials already exists in the target workspace the app uses them. About Credentials
- 25. Dashboard on an external source (Twitter)
- 26. • URL Endpoint •GET Web Source API JSON/XML Response Metadata • oAuth2 Credential Web Credentials Twitter API
- 27. oAuth2 Client Credentials Flow Dashboard on an external source APEX never exports Passwords or Client Secrets
- 28. Dashboard on an external source Classic report Calendar Jet Chart
- 29. Local Post Processing Dashboard on an external source select text LIST_TEXT, name LIST_TITLE, ' @' || screen_name LIST_BADGE, '<img style="border-radius: 50%" src="' || profile_image_url || '">' ICON_CLASS from #APEX$SOURCE_DATA# where trunc(CREATED_DATE) >= sysdate - 7 order by created_at desc
- 30. Dashboard on an external source to_date(TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ(SUBSTR(CREATED_AT,4), 'MON DD HH24:MI:SS TZHTZM YYYY'),'dd/mm/yyyy')
Editor's Notes
- We’re an Oracle Platinum Partner with multiple specialisations to our name, including Managed Services, Engineered Systems, Oracle Cloud implementations. We’re also the #1 APEX development consultancy in the UK with a particular focus on Forms to APEX projects and developing Cloud Native Applications. we are the ukoug database partner of the year, 3 years running running…as voted for by our customers
- as mensioned i'm rodrigo mesquita, i'm a trainer, i do speking on events like this, we mantaing a blog, please checkout the link at the end, but most of the time i'm a consultant and a developer, and try to promote apex where is possible witch is part of the reason of this presentation.
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