Thursday, January 13, 2011

Plug-in Update: SkillBuilders Super LOV 1.2

The APEX community has been providing us with lots of great feedback on Super LOV thus far... Keep it coming and we’ll keep making it better!

This release includes the following changes:

  1. Integrated buttons in the main input. The buttons are styled using jQuery UI which is consistent with the rest of the plug-in. Also, the “clear” button switches to a confirmation button to help prevent accidental clearing.
  2. Added “Effects Speed” attribute. Many people have had great things to say about the transition effects implemented in Super LOV but some people complained they were too slow for heavy data entry. Now you can adjust the speed to make it faster or set it to instant which essentially disables the effects altogether.
  3. Added “Default Search Column Number” attribute. Currently this will just default the column that is searched when the modal dialog is opened. This attribute will become even more important with the next release – when the item can be made “enterable”.
  4. Fixed bug that prevented Cascading LOV attribute from working. The item now “cascades” as it should with both parent and child items.

Future plans include:

  1. Making the input “enterable”. This will allow a user to focus in the main input and begin typing. If a single match is retrieved in the LOV, then the hidden item will be updated and the LOV will never open. If multiple matches are found then the LOV will open “pre-filtered” to allow for selection.
  2. Allowing LOV selection to update multiple items/elements. Lot’s of people (especially those from Oracle Forms) have been requesting this functionality so we’ve added it to the list.

To get this plug-in, as well as our other plug-in offerings, visit new “Plug-ins” page at SkillBuilders.com. Future plug-in releases, including this one, must be downloaded from that site. Downloads require free registration, but it’s a small price to pay for some great functionality. Smile Enjoy!

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12 comments:

  1. Peter RaganitschJanuary 14, 2011 at 5:20 AM

    Cool Stuff !

    Do you have a timeline for the planed features? I know many people are interested in the update multiple items features :-)

    brgds,
    Peter

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  2. Dan McGhanJanuary 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    Hi Peter,

    Thanks!

    If I had to guess at a timeline I would say early February...

    Regards,
    Dan

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  3. JonJanuary 14, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    Really like this feature but just a note that the 'Clear' feature no longer seems to work.

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  4. Dan McGhanJanuary 14, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    Jon,

    Did you click the button twice? The first click should change the clear button to a confirmation button. If the confirmation button is clicked, the value should be cleared.

    This is to prevent accidental clicks on the clear button which would require the LOV to be reopened.

    If this still isn't working for you please put up a demo on apex.oracle.com so I can take a look.

    Regards,
    Dan

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  5. StewJanuary 21, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Dan,

    Nice work on the Confirm Clear button functionality. Like Jon, I didn't get it right away. But after I did, I really appreciated the feature.

    My only suggestion would be to enhance the documentation a bit, explaining the features and options.

    Thanks for providing this.

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  6. Dan McGhanJanuary 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM

    Stew,

    Thanks!

    I'll look into adding more details to the documentation.

    Regards,
    Dan

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  7. Richard MartensJanuary 25, 2011 at 4:47 AM

    Great plugin, but since the upgrade to 1.2 I'm unable to save the plugin anymore (where I set the theme amongst others)

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  8. Dan McGhanJanuary 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM

    Richard,

    I'm not sure what you mean by "where I set the theme amongst others".

    Can you set up a demo of the problem on apex.oracle.com?

    Please email me directly...

    Regards,
    Dan

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  9. Amar GoelMarch 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    Dan, Awesome plugin. Thanks a lot.
    Is it possible to click on the item itself to pop up the LOV (in addition to the triangle icon) ?
    Thanks again.
    Amar

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  10. Dan McGhanMarch 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM

    Amar,

    I've added the suggestion to the long list of enhancements. It's not possible now, but it will be eventually.

    Regards,
    Dan

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  11. SheshJune 13, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    Hi Dan,

    I am trying this on version 4.0.0.00.46 and getting errors saying should use unique alias, when I put the query for the LOV with alias like "Customer ID" for eg.
    When I use "Customer ID".But if I use "Customer_ID" there is no issue.
    Also I am not able to search from the serach window it ends with no results.

    I tried the same application I developed on 4.0.2.00.07 version it works good.

    Please let me know if there are any version constraint.

    Thanks
    Shesh

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  12. Dan McGhanJune 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM

    Shesh,

    I've had other complaints of issues prior to version 4.0.2. Although I couldn't spot anything in the patch notes I believe some minor bugs were fixed.

    There were lots of other bugs fixed since 4.0, I strongly recommend you upgrade.

    Regards,
    Dan

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