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Feature Request FR-2885
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Status CLOSED

8 Voters

Make the Select2 plugin part of APEX

jaco Public · Dec 11 2022

Idea Summary

As Apex does not have an appropriate combo box like Forms does we use the Select2 Plugin. 

Here is the old plugin

https://github.com/nbuytaert1/apex-select2

Here is the Select2 page.

https://select2.org/

We have a new version of the plugin as the old one does not work anymore. We had do pay FOEX FOS to fix it for us as they do support for plugins. This in our minds should be part of Apex out of the box. We are happy to donate the working plugin to Oracle if they make it part of Apex and maintain it for future releases.

Use Case
This works well as a combo box to add an item if there is nothing and gives you a dropdown of things that are already saved

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Oracle should make this item part of Apex so that we do not have to use a plugin to get this function. Plugins create a risk as we could not upgrade as the plugin stopped working and the origanal author no longer updated the plugin.

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that due to all the internal implications we need to take into account, it is unlikely to make its way into APEX.

Comments

Comments

  • vincent morneau Admin OP 3.1 years ago

    Hi @jaco ,

    The APEX team is considering a combobox, however it will not be by integrating a third party library like Select2. Closing this idea for now, but stay tuned.