Oracle APEX returns with a new version 23.2bringing a powerful set of features to make your applications more powerful and your development process more efficient.
In this article, we’ll explore four key features that will change the way you design and manage your applications with Oracle APEX 23.2.
Whether you’re an experienced developer or new to Oracle APEX(Application Express), these latest enhancements will inspire you to push the boundaries of your projects. This platform update offers innovative features that will significantly transform the way you design and deploy your applications.
Automate your business processes with Workflow from Oracle APEX 23.2
The new workflow features in Oracle APEX 23.2 mean that complex business processes are no longer an obstacle. Developers can now easily create, customize and manage workflows, facilitating the management of tasks and approvals in their applications. You can integrate verification steps, automated notifications and staggered approvals in just a few clicks.
The benefits of Oracle APEX Workflow
The new benefits ofOracle APEX 23.2 Workflow are the key to optimizing your application development and deployment processes.
- Process automation: this enables you to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up time for higher value-added tasks.
Visibility and transparency: you can monitor the status of tasks and workflows in real time. This improves visibility and transparency, which is essential for informed decision-making.
- Customization: Oracle APEX Workflow is highly customizable. You can tailor workflows to your specific needs, depending on your industry and processes.
- Mobility: employees can access tasks and workflows from any mobile device, promoting mobility and flexibility within the company.
Use case example
Imagine a scenario in which you have to manage the employee leave request process. Workflows let you create a process that automates the request, manager approval, HR approval and employee notification stages. This considerably reduces human error and speeds up processing.
Faster, more precise advanced search with Oracle APEX 23.2
Facet search enhancements
Enhancements to ” facetedsearch” make searching within applications more powerful than ever. Users now have the option of customizing aspects of the search, guaranteeing a better user experience.
What’s more, the full-text search function is more intelligent and precise, ensuring that users can quickly find what they need.
Use case example
In an e-commerce application, customers can refine their product searches according to size, color, brand, etc. Numerous search enhancements make navigation smoother and product discovery easier, increasing user satisfaction..
Workflow and approval enhancements
Manage new human task cases with extended functionality
Approval management is now more flexible and powerful. Enhancements to approval functionality make it easy to customize approval rules to suit your business needs.
You can also configure approval notifications according to various scenarios to improve traceability and accountability.
The approval enhancements in Oracle APEX 23.2 offer many benefits to your business:
- Time and efficiency savings: approval workflows are faster and more efficient, speeding up decision-making and reducing delays.
- Reduce errors: automated approval rules minimize the risk of human error.
- Enhanced compliance: Oracle APEX makes it easy to set up approval processes that comply with internal and external regulations.
- Improved visibility: managers have a real-time overview of the status of approvals, facilitating planning and decision-making.
Example of use
In the project management process, change requests must be approved by various stakeholders. Thanks to approval enhancements, you can create specific rules for each type of request, ensuring a smooth workflow and rapid responses.
Work management made easy with application job copies
Develop with confidence with application workbooks
You can now createworking copies of your applications. This allows you to work on different versions of the application without affecting the original version.
In the same way as Git, you can merge different versions into the main application. Several people can work together at their own pace to bring about their own evolutions.
Use case example
In a development environment, you want to test new features without disrupting the production application.
Working copies allow you to create a copy of the application, make changes securely, test them, then merge them seamlessly into the main version when you’re satisfied with the result.
Additional updates and enhancements
Find out more about the other updates and enhancements in Oracle APEX 23.2 :
- Customized map backgrounds
- Model component updates
- Improvements to subscriptions within shared components
- Quick SQL updates
- REST data source enhancements
- Support for Fusion Apps extensions
- General builder improvements
- Background execution chain context
- Disabling and restricting applications with new instance settings
In conclusion: choose Oracle APEX 23.2 for your applications
Oracle APEX 23.2 brings significant enhancements that transform the way you design and manage your applications. These new features simplify process management, improve search, facilitate approvals and enable smoother management of working copies. If you’re looking to optimize your applications and improve development efficiency, Oracle Apex 23.2 is the answer.
Whether you want to modernize an old application or create a new one, our team of experts is ready to support you in Oracle APEX integration, optimization and operation. Contact us today to discuss your specific requirements !
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