First of all, to our Canadian and American friends, we hope you had a wonderful long weekend celebrating with friends and family.
If you overdid it on the celebrations this past weekend and are still recovering from a whirlwind conference season like we are (Kscope22 and Ascend22, we miss you already!), sit back, relax, and dip your toes into some Oracle APEX content. The water's real nice đź’¦.
APEX Tip: Another tip from Insum's private Stack Overflow channel
News: Things that caught our attention in the Oracle APEX community.
Shows: What we've covered since our last newsletter, and what's coming up on Insum's YouTube channel.
Insum APEX Pro gets an update
Insum's own Ben Shumway has recently released an update to the (free and open-source) Chrome extension that almost 1000 Oracle APEX developers rely on weekly.
On our most recent APEX Instant Tips, Hayden even admitted that he's grown so used to using it that he's forgotten that some of the features aren't actually default APEX functionality!
To learn more about Insum APEX Pro and level up your APEX development, check out our updated blog post and watch Ben share some of the features on APEX Instant Tips #79.
Tip from Insum's Stack Overflow
Elisabeth Ashley is back with another curated tip from Insum's Stack Overflow. Our consultants use it daily to get quick help from their colleagues worldwide. Maybe you've had this question too?
HOW DO I SET THE COLUMN WIDTH OF AN INTERACTIVE REPORT COLUMN?
Give your column a static ID (example: PRODUCT_NAME)
#PRODUCT_NAME will set the width of the header. And [headers="PRODUCT_NAME"] targets all the rows.
VoilĂ !
Oracle APEX Community News
Oracle APEX played a prominent role in Oracle's "The Future of Healthcare" presentation following the Cerner acquisition on June 9. Exciting things ahead!
Oracle APEX Senior Architect Steve Muench has released a demo video on how to build a low-code mobile payments app with APEX. It goes into many APEX features you may not know about and is a must-watch.
A new APEX App Creator Spotlight: Mathias Maciel’s CES application tracks student performance data in Paraguay.
ODTUG has announced the location of Kscope23: Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver
APEX Instant Tips has covered how to use APEX_IR.GET_REPORT to access an Interactive Report's search results, how to add a report and form to a pre-existing page, how to find slow code, and, as mentioned above, introduced you to Insum APEX Pro. Missed any of these episodes? See the Instant Tips playlist.
On Feuertips, Steven dove into the details of deterministic functions and refactored some PL/SQL code. Interested in these subjects? See the Feuertips playlist.
Up next
Feuertips with Steven Feuerstein: Deterministic is good...So SQL is bad?
