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Build beautiful and interactive API documentation for ORDS

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In this blog post, I will show you how to quickly build beautiful and interactive API documentation for your Oracle APEX REST data sources using  swagger hub . Using APEX v23.1. I downloaded the  titanic data set  and loaded them into tables in my APEX instance, created some authorized restful services and published them using swagger hub. You can create a free account on swagger hub.   Check out my titanic swagger hub here ; Press Authorize. Username REST, password Glasgow123! I won't go through creating RESTful services and just show you the four I created that sit on top of the titanic data set; The GET is a very simple SQL query;      select * from TITANIC_DATA_SET_NEW A handy tip is to add comments, as there will appear on swagger hub, making your API self documenting; Once you have created your modules, press the Generate Swagger Doc button; This will generate an open API for you.  Copy the API and paste it into swagger hub This will generate the documentation; As mentioned b
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Build beautiful and interactive API documentation for ORDS

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In this blog post, I will show you how to quickly build beautiful and interactive API documentation for your Oracle APEX REST data sources using  swagger hub . Using APEX v23.1. I downloaded the  titanic data set  and loaded them into tables in my APEX instance, created some authorized restful services and published them using swagger hub. You can create a free account on swagger hub.   Check out my titanic swagger hub here ; Press Authorize. Username REST, password Glasgow123! I won't go through creating RESTful services and just show you the four I created that sit on top of the titanic data set; The GET is a very simple SQL query;      select * from TITANIC_DATA_SET_NEW A handy tip is to add comments, as there will appear on swagger hub, making your API self documenting; Once you have created your modules, press the Generate Swagger Doc button; This will generate an open API for you.  Copy the API and paste it into swagger hub This will generate the documentation; As mentioned b
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Oracle APEX Interactive Grid colour cells based on a condition using JavaScript and CSS

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In this post I will describe how to colour an Interactive Grid based on a column condition using CSS and JavaScript.  Using APEX Version 19.2. I want to colour every column red in my IG when the value is 'No'.   I have several IGs on my page I want to colour, so I set all my IGs that I want to colour with a CSS class of ATTENDEE_SCORE_IG in the Appearance section of the IG; Every column I want to colour in the IG I set the CSS Class to COLOUR_YES_NO (in this example I set this in 5 columns); I then created a Dynamic Action (DA) that contains the JavaScript that has the condition check that will colour the cells.  Because I have several IGs that are details of the master/detail relationship and these are refreshed by the user clicking on the master detail IG I have made my DA a Page Change [Interactive Grid].  If you don't need this you can set the DA on page load. The JS which will colour every column is this; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Oracle APEX pretty checkbox item plugin

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Build beautiful and interactive API documentation for ORDS

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In this blog post, I will show you how to quickly build beautiful and interactive API documentation for your Oracle APEX REST data sources using  swagger hub . Using APEX v23.1. I downloaded the  titanic data set  and loaded them into tables in my APEX instance, created some authorized restful services and published them using swagger hub. You can create a free account on swagger hub.   Check out my titanic swagger hub here ; Press Authorize. Username REST, password Glasgow123! I won't go through creating RESTful services and just show you the four I created that sit on top of the titanic data set; The GET is a very simple SQL query;      select * from TITANIC_DATA_SET_NEW A handy tip is to add comments, as there will appear on swagger hub, making your API self documenting; Once you have created your modules, press the Generate Swagger Doc button; This will generate an open API for you.  Copy the API and paste it into swagger hub This will generate the documentation; As mentioned b
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