Revolutionize your applications with new features in Oracle APEX 23.2

Oracle APEX returns with a new version 23.2, bringing 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.

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Oracle APEX 23.2

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Whether you are an experienced developer or a newcomer to Oracle APEX (Application Express), these recent enhancements will inspire you to push the boundaries of your projects. This platform update introduces innovative features that significantly transform the way you design and deploy your applications.

Automate Your Business Processes with Oracle APEX 23.2 Workflow

The new features of Oracle APEX 23.2 Workflow mean that complex business processes are no longer a hurdle. Developers can now easily create, customize, and manage workflows, making task and approval management in their applications more straightforward. You can integrate verification steps, automated notifications, and staggered approvals with just a few clicks.

Advantages of Oracle APEX Workflow

The new benefits of Oracle APEX 23.2 Workflow serve as a master key to optimize the development and deployment processes of your applications.

  • Process Automation: This allows the automation of repetitive tasks, freeing up time for higher-value tasks. Visibility and Transparency: You can track the real-time status of tasks and workflows, enhancing visibility and transparency, crucial for making informed decisions.
  • Customization: Oracle APEX Workflow is highly customizable. You can tailor workflows to your specific needs, based on your industry and processes.
  • Mobility: Employees can access tasks and workflows from any mobile device, promoting mobility and flexibility within the company.

 

Oracle APEX 23.2 Workflow

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Example of Use Case

Imagine a scenario where you need to manage the employee leave request process. Workflows enable you to create a process that automates the steps of request, manager approval, HR approval, and employee notification. This significantly reduces human errors and accelerates request processing.

Faster, more precise advanced search with Oracle APEX 23.2

Facet search enhancements

Enhancements toFacetedSearch 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 tasks 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.

Simplified Work Management with Application Working Copies

Confident Development with Application Working Copies

Now, it’s possible to create copies of your applications (Working Copies). This allows you to work on versions of the application without affecting the original version.

Similar to Git, you can merge different versions into the main application. Multiple people can collaborate and contribute their changes at their own pace.

Oracle APEX 23.2 Copies de travail

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Example of Use Case

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 safely, test them, and seamlessly merge them into the main version when you are 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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