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  Description While upgrading APEX 4.1 to APEX 5.0 on database 11.2.0.3 and Oracle Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG) an issue occurred. The installation didn’t work anymore. Following message was displayed before the login page was even loaded: The message says, in essence, that the static files of the APEX installation cannot be found. There is

Oracle released the latest version of the Oracle Document Cloud service last weekend and there are some new features which make life easier when using the cloud service in the browser. Oracle Document Cloud Service (ODCS) provides you, your company and your customers an easy way to collaborate and share all kinds of documents. You

Overview of workmanagers One usecase that can pop up during development is that a long running task needs to be executed with an ADF action component. Usually, these types of operations are executed inside the action component’s action listener, but in this case due to the fact that the task may take longer to execute

Overview When developing mobile applications or applications that support a responsive design with Oracle ADF, sometimes you will be tasked with styling component to look like the native mobile components. Normally when using plain html this shouldn’t be a problem but when working with ADF you are confined to using faces components to make the

I guess all of us know how annoying the consistency check warnings can be when saving the repository. This entry shows you how to hide selected warnings from the Consistency Check Manager of OBIEE Admintool client. You can download and apply patch 11810367 to hide selected warnings from the Consistency Check Manager. After applying the

Did you ever want to format your dashboard pages for printing? Since OBIEE 11.1.1.7 you can create custom layouts for printing dashboard pages, which allow your users to generate and print high quality PDF documents. With OBIEE 11.1.1.9 you can also create custom layouts for exporting dashboard pages, which you can use to export dashboard

Why think about Mobile BI Dashboard Design? More and more companies put efforts on Mobile BI solutions for monitoring key metrics. The physical boundaries of the office are not the boundaries of information usage any longer. It has also become clear that dashboards designed for a desktop computer are not suitable for those use cases

Not all chart types that are available with BI Publisher Template Builder for Microsoft Word can be created with the chart wizard directly. This blog entry will show you how to build a vertical line chart and configure the layout, based on the creation of a chart with the help of the chart wizard. First you

The writeback feature in OBIEE 11g provides the possibility to directly change data in the database out of a dashboard. This is very helpful if you want to correct some data like the name of an employee and don’t want to change it in the HR application. Or you change the commission rates of your sales employees

Good things are happening with Oracle WebCenter Portal in the last couple of months/years, one of the improvements to the WCP is the introduction of FrameworkFolders component in WebCenter Content. You can find on the internet the reasons why you should use FrameworkFolders against Folders_g component, this article is not about reasons, but about how

The Oracle middleware enterprise content management system WebCenter Content (WCC) has the possibility to structure data in a folder-like view. Before WCC 11.1.1.6 this was only possible with the folder_g component. Starting with PS6 Oracle provides a second component named FrameworkFolders which will be the successor of the old folders_g functionality.  The new FrameworkFolders is

Recently a question on the OTN JDeveloper & ADF Space caught my interest. The question was how to initialize an af:quickQuery component with a parameter passed to a task flow on load of a page. At first I thought that this would be a simple case of setting a property InitialQueryOverwritten=true as mentioned by Frank