Monday, March 3, 2008

Oracle Application Express 3.1 available now!

Oracle Application Express 3.1 was released a few days ago, you can download the latest release here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/download.html

Many of you have probably already heard of or even tried out the new interactive report regions. If you haven’t heard about this new region type yet, I’d recommend starting with the brief introduction which can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/irrs.html

In addition to interactive report regions, there have been numerous other enhancements, and one of my focus areas were the enhancements to report printing. The two main enhancements in this area are support for multiple SQL source statements for report queries, allowing to combine several reports or combinations of reports and charts in a single print document, and additionally, the introduction of a PL/SQL print API. I will cover these enhancements and some of the other changes on my Blog in the coming weeks. For now, I’d like to point out the 3.1 new features application, which showcases some of the printing enhancements along with interactive reports and other 3.1 new features:

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=2357:8