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Oracle APEX 26.1 Triggered Actions on Buttons & New Metric Card 01 Introduction Oracle APEX 26.1 introduced something that quietly changes how I now build dashboards. Two features dropped in the same release that work beautifully together: Declarative Dynamic Action Support for Actions, Buttons, Cards, and Menus , and a brand new template component called Metric Card . 02 Context What This Used to Take Before 26.1, attaching click behavior to per-row elements (a button inside a card, an action on a template component, a menu item) usually meant one of two awkward options. Either you wrote JavaScript that read DOM data attributes and manually called apex.server.process() , or you built a Dynamic Action elsewhere in the page tree with a custom event hook. The connection between what was clicked and what happens lived in two different places. ...

Oracle APEX 26.1 Dynamic Triggered Action in Cards A hands-on look at triggered actions in Cards, with everything I discovered building it from scratch. Introduction The Wall I Kept Hitting If you have been working with the Cards region in Oracle APEX for a while, there is a good chance you have hit the same wall I kept hitting. You can set up a Card, wire up an action on the Title, the Full Card, the Subtitle, even the Media area — but the moment you wanted that action to do something a little smarter (show a confirmation dialog, set a page item, fire some JavaScript, display a success toast), you ended up writing custom JavaScript, hacking link targets, or building workarounds with hidden buttons. This post is essentially my notebook from exploring that feature — what I tried, what I noticed, and what I think every APEX developer should know about it. ...