CHAPTER 12

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Using Modal Forms

Modal forms are often useful in an enterprise setting to allow users to manage their data without traveling too far from where they found the record. Consider a pop up in a report that allows basic maintenance of record data.

The advent of APEX 5.0 revolutionizes the way complex modal forms are handled in APEX environments. Of course, not everyone will adopt APEX 5.0 straight away (I know some clients who still use APEX 3.x), and it’s not the panacea of modal forms.

This chapter covers the middle ground of modal forms where the APEX developer has control over a simple set of items in a modal dialog to help manage application ...

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