Friday, December 17, 2010

New Plug-in in the Wild! SkillBuilders Super LOV

The built-in Popup LOV item in APEX can be a powerful tool when the number of possible selections is too high for other item types that use LOVs, such as a select list. However, people often wish to display more information when making a selection than this item type allows. In the past, developers worked around this issue by either concatenating values in the display column or by creating a custom solution.

Custom solutions provided the ultimate flexibility but required a lot of knowledge and were not always easily transferable to other items, pages, or applications. The SkillBuilders Super LOV plug-in is designed to make these issues a thing of the past while providing a rich, web 2.0 experience.

Click here to view more information. You’ll find a link to a demo on that page.

Enjoy!

7 comments:

  1. Hi Dan

    This is great. I use jquery UI extensively so this fits in seamlessly. I like the fact that you have the selected row highlighted if the values already been set. Nice anmiation too.

    I've got a jquery UI menu plugin and theme switcher in the works, so hopefully I can return the favour of some free code soon. Time's just my enemy at the moment.

    Thanks again
    Matt

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  2. Hi

    Great LOV but does not work with Google Chrome.


    Zulqarnain

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  3. Great plug-in. On Safari I also have a problem with the demo.

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  4. Dan,

    Great plugin. I think a lot of people will find this useful.

    Martin

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  5. Good start of a great plugin ;-).
    Works on FF, but alas not on Chrome and Safari (didn't even try it on IEx).
    So, you'll need to spend (another) weekend ...or the upcoming holidays ;-)
    Good luck!
    Roel

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  6. @mnolan Thanks! Still trying to figure out the best way to handle UI themes in APEX... Time is always the enemy ;)

    @habib @Learco @Martin @anonymous
    Thank you all for the feed back. I fixed the bug related to Webkit browsers and updated the download.

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