Testing APEX 26.1 Interactive Reports New Features

Recently, I created an APP using APEXlang, (check here). I asked the agent to create a lookup table including columns to store colors and icons, useful to work with status for example. The agent no only created the table, but filled with values for the lookups, fa icons and color palette clases.

I'd like to take advantage of this to test some of the new features on Interactive Reports delivered in APEX 26.1, using one of the IR automatically generated:

Column Class

First, I'm going to include those columns in the query report query

then I just need to go into the status column properties, and use the new "CSS Classes" option to include the name of the column holding the class.

And that's it. That saves us from a lot of JavaScript we used to develop to get the same behavior.

Invoke Interactive Report Dialog Actions

There is a way now to invoque IR options from the Actions menu. Let's say I create a button to download the content on the report. Right clicking the button displays now "Create Triggered Action"

Inside that action properties, we can select under Identification the Action "Invoke Interactive Report Dialog".

Then under Settings there is a second Action, where we can select the option from Actions Menu. In this case, I'll pick "Download"

As result, when the button is clicked, the download options is displayed as if we selected Actions -> Download from the menu.

Small changes but for sure will make our lives easier during development and improve delivered apps User Experience by reducing the number of steps to execute an action.