Saturday, June 11, 2011

APEX 4.1 EA2 available: drag/drop calendar, data load

The Oracle Application Express (APEX) development team hit the ball out the park again with some of the new features you find in APEX 4.1 Early Adopter 2!

tryapexnow.com got updated last night with a new version of APEX and I just played a little bit with it. Two new features caught my eye: the data load wizard and the drag/drop in the calendar.

Drag/Drop in Calendar

I followed the wizard to create a new page of type Calendar and it now asks if you want to enable Drag and Drop.

The drag and drop features uses an On Demand Page Process which you have to select in the Calendar Attributes. If you click on the Process label you see an example how such a Process needs to look like.


Data Loading Pages (wizard)

You want to allow people to upload data in your application (using copy/paste or a csv file)? Now you just have to follow the Data Loading wizard and it does everything for you. It even includes a mechanism that detects if it needs to do an update or an insert, it allows you to add data transformations and validations and it just flows well.

When you finish the wizard the page in you application looks like this

Many features that come with this wizard, really nice. And it's just an APEX page, so you can still customise it like you want.

If you didn't try APEX 4.1 yet, give it a go, it's worth to see what's coming... and remember to use the Feedback link to give the APEX development team feedback.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous6/16/2011 9:31 AM

    Dimitri,

    Can you please publish how you could get the "Data Loading Wizard"???

    Tried in Regions and Items. Couldn't find.

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    Rakesh

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  2. Anonymous6/16/2011 9:36 AM

    Sorry,

    Found it myself.

    Create New Page -> Data Loading ->

    --
    Rakesh

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  3. Dimitri Gielis6/16/2011 9:38 AM

    Hello Rakesh,

    You need to do create page.
    It's an entire page...

    Hope that works,
    Dimitri

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  5. Gallespi8/09/2011 1:43 PM

    hi..

    Am kiran new to oracle, Thanks for sharing the information Drag/Drop calender.I think this would me defiantly.

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  6. Anonymous9/01/2011 10:18 PM

    Hi Dimitri,

    I tried to create data upload page and I noticed that there is a page item use hold updated record. I thought this should work the same as SQL loader and suprised to see there seems to have an updating process. Do you know why? If so, do you know how it determine if the record should be updated or inserted?

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  7. yavuz12/05/2011 9:25 AM

    Hi Dimitri,

    I want to learn if is there any way to use "Data Loading Wizard" just for insert not for update operations?

    Thanks

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