Thread: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters


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Patrick Wolf

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APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 14, 2008 12:06 PM
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I'm currently developing a new open source Oracle APEX development tool and I'm looking for early adopters/beta testers.

Details can be found at http://essentials.oracleapex.info/

Feel free to use this thread to give feedback, share ideas, enhancements, bugs, ...

Thanks
Patrick

My APEX Blog: http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com
The APEX Builder Plugin: http://builderplugin.oracleapex.info/
The ApexLib Framework: http://apexlib.sourceforge.net/
JdeJong

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 14, 2008 10:25 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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I'd love to help Patrick but I'm a relative beginner not only with Apex but also with PL/SQL, so I’m not sure I’ll be of any value.
Patrick Wolf

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 9:13 AM   in response to: JdeJong in response to: JdeJong
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Hi Johannes,

there is no limitation which skills you need. I think it's a really good to have a beginner as beta tester, because you ask different questions than an advanced APEX developer and you may see the value better how the tool can support you in your daily work.

So feel free to send me a mail.
Patrick
petervdn2

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 1:03 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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Hi Patrick,

First of all, thanks for the Apex Essentials project, looking forward to using it.

One issue when installing I got several ORA-01031: insufficient privileges messages.
Of course this was because the user I imported in didn't have create view/procedure rights. Maybe this is something to check in de prerequisites?
Or just mention the rights needed to install. (create procedure, table, view, sequence...).
That would save a lot of trial and error attempts.

And a question, why the separate gif for the processing and not just use the processing3.gif standard in Apex?
Patrick Wolf

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 10:55 PM   in response to: petervdn2 in response to: petervdn2
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Peter,

you are correct with the processing3.gif. I added the separate file, because I thought it's not part of the APEX distribution. Fixed that.

About your "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges messages":

In "Supporting Objects\Prerequisites" has this kind of privileges are checked.
I tested that yesterday and it's showing up correctly when installing on 3.0 and 3.1 when a privilege is missing. Any idea what could be wrong? What privilege (exact statement) have you granted to your user.

Thanks
Patrick

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Syed_Kamran

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 11:34 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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will you plz explain what do you mean by a " New open source Apex development tool" ? Do you mean that a new version of APEX
petervdn2

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 11:45 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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I granted the following :
create any procedure to me
create any sequence to me
create any view to me
create any table to me

I think I could have left out the ANY, because the parsing schema is the schema of my user.

I can see that the prerequisites are indeed correct in your application, so I'm also surprised that the installation didn't stop there.
It is on a XE database by the way.
srikavi

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 15, 2008 11:49 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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Hi Patrick,
i had a look on the demo of Apex essentials.When I click the Advisor icon,
I could see different application for checking.
If i want to include my application into it. how to do it.
As i am very new and in the learning process of apex, The question may be silly or worst. Please excuse me.

bye
Srikavi

WTine

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 12:19 AM   in response to: Syed_Kamran in response to: Syed_Kamran
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Hello Syed,

this is no new version of ApEx. It's just a tool you can install in your environment and then you will get further information to improve the development of your applications.

Patrick already has some other nice tools. Just take a look into his blog (http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/ ).

Regards, Tine.
Dimitri Gielis

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 1:15 AM   in response to: srikavi in response to: srikavi
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Hi Srikavi,

I believe you need to install the app in your workspace.
For that workspace you can check your applications. Patick's tool integrate with the APEX look & feel, so you don't really see it's a different app. I tested a very early version and it worked nicely.

Regards,
Dimitri
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Patrick Wolf

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 10:32 AM   in response to: srikavi in response to: srikavi
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Hi Srikavi,

as Dimitri has already written, you have to get the installation files for the tool to be able to test it with your own applications. The workspace which I have set up is just to take a quick look if it's a tool which is of interest for you.

If you want to participate, write a mail to beta@oracleapex.info

@Dimitri: Haven't received your beta participation mail yet. But I will send you the newest version anyway :-)

Patrick


My APEX Blog: http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com
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Dimitri Gielis

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 12:12 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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@Patrick: I didn't say I was in the beta list, just that I tested a very early version ;-)

Regards,
Dimitri
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useruseruser

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 12:14 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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I was looking pages 1000 (report) and notice select statement:
SELECT APPLICATION_ID
, APPLICATION_NAME
, PAGES
, LAST_UPDATED_ON
, LOWER(LAST_UPDATED_BY) AS LAST_UPDATED_BY
FROM APEX_APPLICATIONS
WHERE APPLICATION_NAME 'APEX Essentials'
AND ( :P1000_FIND IS NULL
OR INSTR(UPPER(APPLICATION_NAME), UPPER(:P1000_FIND)) > 0
OR INSTR(APPLICATION_ID, :P1000_FIND) > 0
)

page 1010 looking good too, its very useful template,
and its just basics of APEX code here, looking so good and promises
Gordan
Patrick Wolf

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 12:38 PM   in response to: useruseruser in response to: useruseruser
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Hi Gordan,

had to remove some of the preferencing stuff from the version which is installed on apex.oracle.com, because everybody is using the user guest -> someone would get the settings of the last user.

This preferencing code could also be used as a template, because I think it a really nice but underused feature of APEX.

Patrick

My APEX Blog: http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com
The APEX Builder Plugin: http://builderplugin.oracleapex.info/
The ApexLib Framework: http://apexlib.sourceforge.net/
useruseruser

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Re: APEX Essentials - Looking for early adopters
Posted: May 16, 2008 2:57 PM   in response to: Patrick Wolf in response to: Patrick Wolf
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Hi Patric,
I was installing simple Apex Essential on other space for test purposes trying to understand way how Advisor working on, and I was addinng simple report (as page 15) and I was created List Entries Grid Edit (as sequence 20 and post link for page 15, all that on page 1(call NEW PAGES) (DHTML List (Image) with Sublist ). Its kind of redirection on basicaly "apex way". Users can menage Advisor for specific purposes.
With this Advisor apex become with plus one usefull feature.
Gordan
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