What's New in Oracle APEX 21.2

 

What’s New in Orale APEX 21.2 ?

APEX 21.2 is live apex.oracle.com , thanks to APEX DEV team. APEX 21.2 comes up with enormous updates including Smart filters Progressive Web Apps, Universal Theme & UI Updates, new components and updated components. Let’s see what we got in this release?

New positions

In this release we have got some new positions in layout, which is a great improvement. Now we can design the page more precisely and accurate design.

New Page Location Options

• Banner
• Before Navigation Bar
• After Navigation Bar
• Top Navigation
• Full Width Content
• Body
• Dialogs, Drawers and Pop-ups
  

Body Components

Now we can Create Items and Button as Body elements. Eirlier, we had only region as a main element.

Sample View in below figure.

Smart Filters & Search

Search Region:

Choose Classic report and set position

Search Type

Options include:

• Row Search
• Oracle Text

Progressive Web Apps

PWA is now available natively, Special thanks to Vincent Morneau .

• Make your APEX application installable. Your APEX application is worthy of being on a device home screen. Give your users the ability to be install your app seamlessly.
• Custom Offline Page The web isn’t typically very good at dealing with offline connections. An APEX PWA offers at least a customizable offline fallback page.

PWA setup

• GO to App definition
• Progressive Web App
• Enable PWA/ Installable

Modal Dialog Drawers

There is a new template to render both page and region modal dialogs that can slide in from the sides of your screen, maximizing screen real estate and providing an entirely new user experience for auxiliary actions.

Custom CSS using CSS classes.