ApEx 3.1 New Feature Causes Mind to Boggle
Posted by David Aldridge on 2008-03-06
The specific cause of the bogglation is the “Interactive Reporting” feature, which you can take for a test drive here. Click on the “Interactive Reports” tab and then poke the “View Customized Interactive Reports” button. Integrating Flashback Query (click on the little cog wheel) is a little stroke of genius, and a testament to the integration of ApEx with Oracle’s core features, and I think the ApEx developers must be having far too much fun with this project.
We’re standing up ApEx v3 here for managing reference data as soon as we can get the development environment available (shouldn’t be many more months now!) and the new features of 3.1 seem pretty compelling. Interactive Reporting, PDF’s and Emailing Attachments are a powerful combination.
I am also amused that Oracle not only has added another reporting tool to its stable, but that it shares a common name with Oracle’s Hyperion Interactive Reporting — is anyone Googling these names before they assign them?
2008-03-06 at 9:55 am
Ah. The wonders of RSS. You go offline for a while (well 6 months) and Google Reader politely tells me you have surfaced again. Welcome back.
2008-03-06 at 10:38 am
As a child I was told that “if you don’t have something nice to say then you shouldn’t say anything at all” … ha ha ha.
Thanks Andy.
2008-03-06 at 11:04 am
Neat feature! I guess there are a bunch of people using simple implementations of Business Objects and Discoverer who could easily use this instead.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. 2 posts in 2 days. Welcome back to the unreal world… :)
2008-03-06 at 11:23 am
… not to mention those of us with Crystal Reports :(
2008-03-07 at 2:51 am
I thought the RSS was broken or something…
Welcome back.
Cheers.
Carlos.
2008-03-07 at 7:14 am
Crystal Reports is the ultimate in empire building. Write one report in it and you have a job for life because nobody will want to touch it. :)
I’m sure it’s improved since I last used it… Probably… :)
Cheers
Tim…
2008-04-06 at 2:31 am
I have a little beef with Apex, formerly HTML DB I believe.
Some years back - Oracle had a tool that you could use with the database for building web apps. I can’t remember the name to be honest… Anyways, it was promoted just like HTML DB and Apex. Next release though it became Oracle Portal and required a middleware license (along with pretty much anything else at the time… they must have been really struggling to sell those).
So would I use Apex? Well I haven’t done it yet.