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Drawing on a map

4d ago · 6 min read · The Case One of the tasks of my colleagues in the field (literally) is to report stuff that needs attending to. The easiest way for them is to pick a spot on a map or draw a line or box on their table

Image support for the Rich Text Editor

Jan 6 · 3 min read · The case In recent years APEX changed the technology behind the Rich Text Editor a couple of times; from CKEditor to TinyMCE and back to CKEditor. Initially this type of field allowed for the pasting of images which were converted to Base64 and thus ...

Adding more zoom power to a map

Dec 8, 2025 · 6 min read · The case Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to zoom in further on an APEX-map? Here’s how you can achieve that. First, you might wonder why need more zoom on a map? Well, one reason for example is being able to click on a given feature to show more infor...

Creating a generic icon-picker

Oct 29, 2025 · 5 min read · The Case Oracle APEX comes shipped with a subset of icons from the well known Font Awesome icon library. These can be used in your application in a multitude of ways. But did you realise you could also let your user decide wat icons to use in the app...

Making a polygon layer transparent

Sep 7, 2025 · 4 min read · The case In our application we needed to show the user regions (polygons) where they had work to do. When clicking on the region it should show all the work-items within that region in a report next to the map. But the region-polygon should be transp...