Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Save Before Exit plugin from SkillBuilder

It is possible that you fill data in form and some case you left the page without saving your work?
 
So that entered data will lost.

There is a plug-in Save Before Exit from SkillBuilder to prevent this issue.

Download the plug-in from: http://www.apex-plugin.com/oracle-apex-plugins/dynamic-action-plugin/skillbuilders-save-before-exit_43.html

Installation steps:
  1. Unzip the downloaded file.
  2. In your APEX screen go to shared document and then Plug-ins and  click on Import.
  3. It will ask for selecting file. Choose dynamic_action_plugin_com_skillbuilders_sbdp_save_before_exit.sql and follow the steps.
  4. This will install plug-in into your application
Configuration in page:
  1. Go to page where you want to add save before exit feature.
  2. Create a dynamic action.
  3. Select advanced and give the name of dynamic action.
  4. Choose page load on Event and next.
  5. select "SkillBuilders Save Before Exit (2.0.0) [Plug-in]" in action and click on next.
  6. Click on create button to create dynamic action.
If you want to add this feature in multiple page then you can create this dynamic action on Page 0 and give the condition that execute on list of pages.

Demo: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=KP:SBE