How to reduce Merge Conflicts of exported APEX Apps

When exporting an APEX app by a tool like SQLcl splitted in separated files, each SQL file will include arguments inside the Metadata export which can differ when exporting from different APEX instances. Depending on the amount of generated files, this may cause a…

Filter an Interactive Grid using JavaScript in APEX 22.1

When using an Interactive Grid with big data and mutiple columns, it may be helpful for the user to be able to filter the results on specific values. For this purpose, APEX offers the native filter functionality of the Interactive Grid, where the user…

Improve Dropzone UX Design with CSS in APEX 20.2

With the release of APEX 20.2 in October 2020, a new Dropzone component for uploading files was added as a native component in the Page Designer. Until then, it was necessary to rely on existing external plug-ins for such an upload functionality. In this…

PL/SQL: Identify dates of weekdays within time period using NEXT_DAY() function

Today I would like to show an example to demonstrate how you can identify all dates of occurrences of a single weekday within a period of time in PL/SQL by specifying a weekday. For a project, a form mask in APEX was needed on…