Hello friends! It's been a while since I stopped by here, and I'd like to present a situation I'm facing, which you've likely encountered before. I have an ERP system developed with APEX, and users often open multiple tabs in the same browser—meaning multiple tabs that share the same session. In the forms I use, many items are stored at the server level because dynamic PLSQL processes are required, and although users know they "shouldn't open the same form in different tabs," the reality is that they don't always follow that rule. This results in data "collisions" that cause very annoying and potentially dangerous issues. So, my first question is whether there is a "native" way to prevent value collisions on the server, and if it's not possible natively, how could I solve the problem I'm describing? I'm using APEX 24.1 on a self-managed server. I look forward to your feedback and appreciate your help. Kind regards.

Hi Everyone, I have 2 tables one of them is Child IG and other is Master IG. I noticed that If I quickly select one row then another in Master IG, Child IG starts to don't fetch any records, It looks just blank without throwing any error message. I'm not sure how to fix this issue, do I need to make selection change slower or something ? Or just remove the Master Detail structure, I'll just refresh the child IG manually with a Page Item. Apex Version is 23.2.5

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I have an issue on pop-up lov + multiple select + cascading. As an example I have 3 values on Lov and when I save the interactive grid, all 3 of display values are combined and shown as first value, while the other two are displayed as technical IDs. Apex Version: 23.2.5

Hi, Does anyone know how to add border-radius to tabs of tabs container region. In custom css have use follow css, is anything wrong in my approach. .t-Tabs-link { border-radius: 10px; }

Hi, Does anyone know whether it is possible to create a Map Background with an URL and api key that is configurable at runtime? I'd like to allow customers to be able to choose their own map. Thanks

How to prevent deselecting already selected rows in an IG when clicking on row? Im using row selector

Is there a way to see the content of the code UTL_FILE.put?

Hi just a quick question: Is there any difference between these 2 queries? _select '' as d from dual;_ _select null as d from dual;_

I have a shuttle that has some values longer than the width of the shuttle window. Does anyone if the values can be wrapped? or a horizontal scroll bar added?

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I have a question related to jasperServer Integration

does anyone here tried to integrate oracle apex with jasperserver for reports ?

Please vote for APEX Idea to have Page Items sorted, and allow multi-select when choosing Page Items in APEX Builder. For example when choosing items to submit and return. https://apex.oracle.com/ideas/FR-4467 Simple idea to save alot of annoyance and work.

There are already five batches released for APEX 24.2, but the version available on OCI still doesn’t include any of them (still 24.2.0). What Oracle’s general approach or policy is regarding this? Is there any way to accelerate the availability of new APEX batches on OCI?

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Hi, I'm using the Image Upload component in Apex 23.2 to allow users to upload images. Ideally I'd like the maximum image height, width and file size to be configurable at run-time. I was intending to hold these values in the database and retrieve them into page items, but it doesn't look like this is possible as you can only enter numbers into the properties in the Designer, not page items. Does anyone know of a way around this? Thanks.

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We have Oracle APEX with some RESTFUL webservices that expose data. Any document on steps/guidence to expose RESTFUL webservices to EXTERNAl? • We only want RESTFUL webservices to be exposed and not APEX application • Want to make sure APEX-database and applications are not accessible Thanks

Hi. In APEX 24.1.5, I am calling a PUT REST API for a Page Process, and am having trouble displaying the returned error text. e.g. in the attached screenshots: The Page Process uses "Invoke API" (1) of a REST Source (2), which returns an OUT parameter "errmsg" (4), which it stores in page item P431_ERRMSG. (5) The Error Message for the Page Process is configured to be &P431_ERRMSG. In testing, when the REST API returns an error (status_code=400, errmsg='some error text"), the apex page doesnt display the expected error, but rather show shows this error: *1 error has occurred* • undefined I believe this is because P431_ERRMSG is not in the session state. What is the proper way to return and show a custom errormessage from the PUT REST API for a Page Process? Kind Regards, Alister

Hello friends, any one had faced before the issue in creating interactive grids when uprgared into APEX 24 and ords 24: Unable to create the Interactive Grid page. ORA-20001: call=wwv_flow_imp_page.create_interactive_grid, id=[NULL], component=1860007786505768, sqlerrm=ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("APEX_240200"."WWV_FLOW_IG_REPORTS"."ID")

Hello everybody, I have installed APEX with ORDS 24.4 with db 19c, everything went OK, if I run it as stand alone it works, but if I run it using weblogic, I got the below screen, app unavailable, the logs says that : INFO No pools configured yet, any ideas?

Related, is there a way to only fire a page 0 DA on page change? That is, going from page 1 -> 2, fire DA. Going page 1 -> 1, don't fire.

apex.event.trigger( "#P0_MYITEM", "apexrefresh" ); Item loses it's current value. Any way to keep the value?

Hello folks, I don't see a dedicated channel for Generative AI in APEX, should I create a new one?

Interactive Grid doesn’t show all rows when pagination=scroll APEX 24.2.0; Modal page The funny thing is when I change the page from modal to normal, it works. How can I fix this in a modal dialog?

and when i select a region in region selector 1 the selected regions in regions selector 2 are gone

greetings everyone , in oracle apex page designer , when I make more than 1 region display selector , the tabs of each region display selectors are shared in both region display selectors

I’m about to reach my wit’s end. I’m using a static content region to try and render some HTML that includes handlebars style markup. However, when the region renders, it looks to be parsing the content of my HTML Region and trying to be smart about Closing the tags. This is causing it to move tags and content around. Details in :thread:

I can't remember if I ever asked this here, but has anyone ever implemented a wiki with Oracle Apex?

I have a form that is collecting files, the file upload item is optional, but suddenly, the form started to change when a file is attempted to be uploaded. No error is displayed; the form just does not submit. Has anyone had this issue?

Hoping someone can help me out. I'm looking to change the label and the colour of a button on a form without having to close and re-open the form. The button is P297_BUTTON and it's using a hidden field for the label meaning the label of the button is *&P297_BUTTON_LABEL.* The colour of the button is P297_BUTTON_COLOUR. I'm using a CSS class in the button attributes to set the colour of the button. The P297_BUTTON_LABEL and the P297_BUTTON_COLOUR variables are hidden fields and they get refreshed / changed on a dialog close or cancel. What I want is to get the new value of *P297_BUTTON_LABEL* into the button and the colour of the button to change as well if the value of P297_BUTTON_COLOUR changed. There is no DA that will refresh a button, as far as I know anyway, so I'll have to assume that a JavaScript can do it. Could someone please help me figure out how to do this? I suck at JS scripting so a little hand holding would sure be awesome.

How to Allow multiple search patterns in Popup LOV for automatic search i.e. %email, %email%, email% Starts with, contains. Currently using apex version 22.1.7

I am currently using BI Publisher Desktop for reporting purposes in Oracle APEX. However, after upgrading to version 24.1, it appears that HTML tags, such as the <table> tag, are no longer being accepted or rendered properly. Could you please advise if there is a known fix or recommended workaround for this issue?

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Hello, how is the best way to compare 2 Apex Applications? I have 2 Apps: 111 and 140. They were same, but changes have been made in both recently. I am no longer sure what features are included in each of them. The export files are hard to compare because of many different internal IDs. We are still on Apex 19.2

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I'm working on prepping my applications to move to 24.2. We had some initialization javascript in our TinyMCE rich text editors that basically enabled the browser's baked in spellcheck. ORTL (the primary rich text editor now) is based on ckeditor5, which only has a paid plugin to do spellcheck. I've been searching for the right method or option to set to re-enable the browser's spellcheck, but can't find anything. Has anybody uncovered this yet?

So here's a quiz for your Thursday... I've never been able to figure out what this region setting does exactly. I can't see any change at all on my page. If the header is "accessible" then how does a user actually see that header? This is just a simple region on a form.

Best way to allow multiple users to update same data? We have an app that has organization level data where we allow users to enter data that will calculate based on those inputs. This works on the overall organization level, but there is a case where two different users might want to enter two different values. This obviously overwrites anything someone already entered. I thought I could get around this by using collections, where the user can use the collections to 'test' out their changes before the organization decides on the final, but I am under the impression that these are only for the session state. The users want their values to stay, and even be able to have multiple versions. Is there a good way to do this? I am thinking maybe use collections, and then allow them to click a button that saves that collection as new rows so they stay there?

Hello all, I have a question regarding the autonomous_transaction. In the following situation, the function DUMP_CSV_STG is declared as autonomous_transaction. Will the main code continue running (here block1, block 2, block 3), while the DUMP_CSV_STG is executing, or the block 2 waits until the the procedure DUMP_CSV_STG finishes, before continuing running: block 2, block 3? Hope question is clear. The reason for knowing this is that, we are logging the time the main code takes to run the 3 blocks. So if we add that procedure and this takes a lot of time, it might affect the execution time of the main code.

declare 
	........
begin
	--CODE BLOCK 1
	
	if get_enabled_stg('MED_STAGING') = 'Y' then 
		v_filename_stg := p_filename || '_STG';  			
		v_rows_stg := DUMP_CSV_STG (v_filename_stg,....., v_rows);
		DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (TO_CHAR (v_rows_stg) || ' rows extracted to '|| v_filename_stg|| '.TMP');
	end if;
	
	--CODE BLOCK 2
	
	--CODE BLOCK 3
	
	.........
end;

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Hello colleagues, I’m currently working on integrating *Oracle APEX* with *ADFS* for SSO authentication. Our environment consists of *WebLogic 14* and *Oracle Database 19c*. After extensive investigation and configuration, we’ve successfully reached the stage where the ADFS login page is displayed and authentication completes successfully. However, upon redirection back to the APEX application, we are encountering a *403 Forbidden error*. Has anyone faced a similar issue or can offer insight into what might be causing this behavior? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

If your field is surrounded by double quotes, APEX will treat it as a single field.

SELECT * FROM TABLE (apex_data_parser.parse (p_content => utl_raw.cast_to_raw ('FirstName,LastName,FullName
John,Doe,"Doe, John"'), p_file_type => 2));

Hi all, How can I import a .txt file into Oracle APEX without splitting values at commas? For example, if a line has a value like "John, Doe", I don't want it to be cut in half at the comma during the import process. How can I keep the entire value intact when importing, considering the separator is a new line?

Apex 23.2 patch set has entries like "37239579 - Fix for bug 37239579" but with no description of the bug. Is there somewhere to see the details?

Has anyone seen a case of a column in a classic report that's set to be sortable, but it does not sort? The symptoms I'm seeing are: I click on the column heading and the page blinks but nothing changes I hit F5 and now I see my report sorted in the right order. It's like sorting does what it's supposed to do but the refresh action never happens. What's so weird is that this is only happening on columns that have only one character in them. Longer contents work, or columns with words in them work. The ones that do not work (at least that I've found so far) just have a 1, 2, or a 3 in them. I click on the column heading, the screen blinks and nothing changes, I then hit F5 and I see my new sorted report.

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Hi all! When copying a page from my Stage environment to Dev I am losing some style templates. In the target env the under Appearance -> Template dropdown settings I see a string of numbers '143835892923 (invalid)'. Any ideas why this is?