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APEX & custom warning messages

D Did you ever wanted to customize user messages? To make them intuitive? Green as success, red as error, yellow as warning? Oh yes, lets add a third message type. Not everything can fit into success or error. To achieve this, I am passing a JSON object as a message and catching this message on page before showing it to users. This allows me to pass the message type or even a unique color, icon and other things (like a DA name to fire after the message). You can modify it however you need. To simplify this and make it more readable, I have created 3 JavaScript functions: show_success show_warning show_error const show_success = function(msg) { apex.message.showPageSuccess(JSON.stringify(get_message(msg, 'SUCCESS'))); }; // const show_warning = function(msg) { apex.message.clearErrors(); apex.message.showErrors([{ type: apex.message.TYPE.ERROR, // sadly no warning supported location: ['page'], message

APEX Alpe Adria 2024

T Third time the charm. I love this conference, love the atmosphere, love the people. This year I have really enjoyed the networking and made few new friends. Sadly, Peter's minions were not present again, and this time nor was Peter. The APEX team was a bit more secretive than usual, but it here are some statements: APEX 24.1 will be a bit late (no news) It might and it might not bring us the 5 features promised on last Kscope (you could actually made and deliver a baby during this waiting) Oracle has build 41 thousands of bespoke internal APEX applications Cloud starting prices for APEX service were dramatically reduced Update 5/2024 According to Mike Hichwa on Dev on Tape podcast the secrecy is because they want to give chance to big respected companies like Bloomberg to write about the new features first. And I have done it. I finally stepped up and presented something on a conference for the first time, in front of a real audience with 70+ peop