Pre/Post Text Item Actions

nicolas pilot Public · May 10 2022

Idea Summary
Add functionality to easily allow developers to add “actions” on Items in the Pre & Post Text

Use Case
When building a user-friendly App, we regularly need an “add” and “edit” functionality for an input field. For example here, when a user is creating a new Job, we would like to allow him/her to easily create or edit a Job Group.
For that, we use the “Pre Text” and “Post Text” with something like that

+ a lot of manual codes (JS + PL/SQL) to open the “Job Group” page etc…

I know that plugins exist for that, but it would be very nice to have built-in functionalities in APEX for that.

Preferred Solution
New attributes on Items :

Post Text : Target (URL / Page / Javascript / None)
Post Text : Icon
Post Text : Custom Attributes
Pre Text : Target (URL / Page / Javascript / None)
Pre Text : Icon
Pre Text : Custom Attributes

This has been delivered in Oracle APEX 22.2!

Comments

maxime tremblay OP 3.1 years ago

I think it would be easier, better and more flexible to be able to position a button inside the pre/post position of an item
nicolas pilot OP 3.1 years ago

Yes, that would be awesome, but the button should be displayed like in the screenshot…
ino.laurensse OP 3.1 years ago

Good idea, also the button option.

I've used both methods. For the button option I've used jQuery .insertAfter() which doesn't always work.

oracle.shohag OP 3.1 years ago

Go to Item Property > Advanced > Post Text

<a href="f?p=&APP_ID.:60:&APP_SESSION.:::60::" class = "fa fa-plus"></a>

fac586 OP 3 years ago
There is a significant lack of joined-up thinking in this area of the Universal Theme.

When default Button Builder mark-up
```
<button type="button" title="Find" aria-label="Find"
    class="t-Button t-Button--noLabel t-Button--icon">
  <span aria-hidden="true" class="t-Icon fa fa-search"></span>
</button>
```
appears in the Pre/Post Text properties of page items where the Item Pre/Post Text template option(s) are set to Display as Block, the result should be a button seamlessly integrated into the item, identical to the built-in activation button on Popup LOVs.
indrek OP 2.9 years ago

Can this plug-in help or at least give hint how to make built-in feature

https://github.com/RonnyWeiss/APEX-Items-with-APEX-Buttons
jayson hanes Admin OP 2.9 years ago

@indrek, it's not that we don't know how to do it :) .. besides, that guy Ronny is now on the APEX Development Team! This idea is set to be considered for a future release of APEX.
vincent morneau Admin OP 2.6 years ago
In APEX 22.2 this is possible with the new Item Container region template! It comes with 3 main positions:
- Button Start
- Item
- Button End
Try it here: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/apex_pm/ut/item-container

It's also possible to remove the gap between the item and button with the template options.
nicolas pilot OP 2.6 years ago

Excellent Vincent, thank you very much for this.

Just a small thing, when playing with this “Item container” region, I can see that the default margin (top & bottom) is different than the item margin…

When changing the top & bottom margin to “small”, it is ok…

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Pre/Post Text Item Actions

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