Now that the deal is officially closed, we are super excited to announce that our entire team is joining Oracle. It’s 10 years a handful of months since we started FOEX with the idea of extending APEX with additional features and capabilities. We’ve learnt a lot along the way through both our successes and failures and can’t wait to contribute our efforts to make APEX even better. It’s been a dream for us to be in this position and now that it’s reality, well it’s taking time for it to sink in. We’re starting a new phase of our journey and one where we can make a much bigger impact and help ma ..read more

We’re happy to announce the next release of the FOS Browser Extension, now with APEX 22.1 compatibility. This release includes several improvements and a handy new feature. APEX 22.1 compatibility You can now enjoy all the advantages this extension provides in the newest version of APEX, for further details about other features introduced in our previous release your can read about them here. New Feature: “Comment Out” A common method to temporarily remove a component from a page is in Page Designer to set the “Server Side Condition” to “Never”, whilst storing the existing condition code ..read more

We’ve been busy over the past 2 years working on several commercial region plug-ins for Oracle APEX. The first one off the production line is a resource scheduling plug-in. Using this plug-in you can easily manage your scheduling needs using a variety of scheduling views, with the most notable being the timeline and resource views in combination with recurring event support. The plug-in is built on top of the DHTMLX Scheduler Pro, which has a proven track record over many years.     Let’s dive into some of the features: Multiple Views Resource view: manage all your daily events grou ..read more

We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest version (21.2) of the FOEX Enterprise Framework, which includes APEX 21.2 support. The main focus in this release was providing APEX 21.2 compatibility so you can take advantage of all the 21.2 new features. You can check  our FOEX demo running on APEX 21.1, and if you want to dig a little deeper you can sign up for a free trial! For existing customers you can download this latest version from our support portal. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of APEX, please ensure that you update the universal theme in y ..read more

The 5th FOS Release 21.2 has finally arrived with official APEX 21.2 support, 4 new plug-ins, and several enhancements. For transparency purposes we acknowledge the fact that this release is quite late after the official release of APEX 21.2. One of the main reasons behind the delay was our involvement in building the community project apexd2d, which was a great initiative to be a part of. The other being that we didn’t find any compatibility issues with using the 21.1 plug-ins in 21.2. With this latest release, there’s now 25 FREE plug-ins in our open source suite. Now if you’re too ..read more

Recently the list of speakers and presentations for this years APEX Alpe Adria has been published. It will take place on the 21st and 22nd of April 2022 in beautiful Maribor, Slovenia. To make things a bit more adventurous, we cried “Road Trip” instantly and hired a 50-seater travel bus. Anyone who wants to join us going from Vienna (with a pick up in Graz) to Maribor is welcome on this trip. There is no fee to pay, all you need to do is drop a comment or send us an email and register your interest.   We’ll leave at our FOEX office on the Vienna border (Perchtoldsdorf / S-Bahn) on April ..read more

Just before the holidays, the long-awaited FOS Browser Extension 21.2 is finally here! This release includes a number of new features which we think will boost your productivity, and speed up your development whilst subtly improving your APEX builder experience. For transparency purposes we acknowledge the fact that this release is somewhat late after the official release of APEX 21.2. One of the main reasons behind the delay was our involvement in building the community project apexd2d. It was a great initiative to be a part of, and we plan to discuss all the technical details, desi ..read more

We’re happy to announce the availability of FOEX 21.1 which includes APEX 21.1 support. You can find a number of improvements and bug fixes in this release. The main focus in this release was providing APEX 21.1 compatibility. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of APEX, please ensure that you update the universal theme in your applications after upgrading ..read more

Change, it’s something that all of us developers using APEX are constantly faced with, well twice a year to be more precise. It’s what can be responsible for of the majority of bugs we investigate. It can also mean that we need to change code because something is no longer available. On the positive side, it also can reduce the amount of code we have to write and maintain thanks to new features and improvements. Planning/performing upgrades to new versions of APEX can result in a significant amount of reading and scrolling of Release Notes for every new feature (oh the joy that brings). Meanin ..read more

Can you believe that we’ve passed the half way point of the year already? Time is flying but the good news is that we managed to find some time to include 5 new plug-ins in our FREE open source suite of plug-ins, whilst providing APEX 21.1 compatibility and fine tuning and fixing a few things. Now if you’re too eager to continue reading about them then just head over to fos.world to download and install them, otherwise let’s get into the details: New Plug-ins Lets have a look at each of them in a little more detail: 1. Advanced Password This new item plug-in offers a visual, highly custom ..read more