Migrate APEX 4.1.0 to 4.2.2

I would like to migrate from actual 4.1.0 version to last one 4.2.2 . I there a best practice or basic steps upgrade doc ?
thx

Best place to start is the installation guide - upgrading from previous release.
Oracle Application Express Installation Overview
It also depends infrastructure - here is my practical example from my laptop running stand-alone APEX listener
Grassroots Oracle: Upgrading to APEX 4.2 in three steps

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Hi All,
What is the best way to migrate APEX software and Applications FROM APEX 4.1.1.00.23 on 10g TO APEX 4.2.1.00.08 on 11gR2.
I have enabled APEX 3x with Embedded PL/SQL Gateway on 11gR2 database. The older version APEX4.1 is uses HTTP server.
Anyone’s help is much appreciated.
Regards

The best way (I had problems with this last week), is to go Oracle Support (do not use the upgrade patch from OTN), and download patch #14732511 from Oracle Support. This will automatically upgrade and migrate your Apex applications to the current 4.2.1.00.8. It should take around 15-30 minutes, depending on your hardware. The one I tried using from OTN wouldn't run, and the supposed upgrade would finish in about 15 seconds.

Info : Migrating Apex Application from Non-SSO to SSO environment

Hi All,
This post is to share my experience while working on APEX. This may be useful to some apex developer.
If we migrate an apex application from a non-sso (i.e. http) to sso (i.e. https) environment, the flash chart doesn't work.
I found that in the source of a Flash Chart region, we use #HOST# variable to locate the swf file. The environment variable takes the correct path but with "http" as prefix. But to access application pages "https" is used. Because of which, the swf file couldn't be located by the application.
Work-around Solution : If I hard code the value i.e. the application path having "https" replacing #HOST# variable then the flash chart works fine. I couldn't found a way by which the #HOST# parameter value can be updated to take "https".
The same environment host other non-sso applications as well.
Any comments on this are welcomed.
Regards,
Mangal

Hi Dirk,
Thanks for the reply.
As I mentioned earlier, by Non-SSO I mean "http" and by SSO I mean "https". This is because, before migration the application was accessible using "http" and now we have to use "https" alongwith SSO to access the application. I only want to highlight the Flash Chart issue with this migration.
The problem doesn't solves with your solution as I am getting correct instance/environment name with #HOST# but prefixed with "http" and not "https". Hence the application won't be able to locate the required swf file.
Even the workaround I mentioned is only feasible, if an application has only few Flash Charts. However, if there are large no. of Flash charts in an application, then it would be a tedious task to update all flash chart source either by an application item (as you mentioned in your post) or hard coding the path itself. Also, every new Flash Chart source needs to be updated by a developer to fix this.
A better solution is required by which the Flash chart source is not touched and the #HOST# variable for the application is updated to take the "https" prefixed to the swf file path.
Regards,
Mangal
Edited by: Mangal on Mar 5, 2009 11:31 PM

Migration Apex 4.2.3 !

Hello Every Body,
I am using apex 4.2 Release 2 and i want to migrate to Apex 4.2.3 ; the oracle doc said that if have apex version 4.2 i should install only the patch of apex 4.2.3 but id dont know if this patch wil migrate the version on my apex (To Apex 4.2.3) ?
Thankyou.

Yosof wrote:
OK,
So it means that i should download apex_4.2.3 files installation to migrate to apex 4.2.3 ?
No, it means you should download the p17347169_423_Generic.zip patch set from MOS using your Oracle Support identifier. Users without Oracle Support cannot patch a 4.2.x installation.
Upgrading a 4.2.x installation to 4.2.3 using the full apex_4.2.3.zip OTN download requires all workspaces and applications to be backed up, APEX 4.2.x to be uninstalled, performing a clean 4.2.3 installation, and restoring the backed up metadata.
Do you have an Oracle Support contract?

Migrate APex workspace to new database

Hi
Can someone please help me out with the steps to migrate the Workspace from 1 database to another ? The app server remains the same, we are migrating the db to a different platform.
I have Dashboard , Apex_data and flows_03100 schema created by Apex.
Thanks
Edited by: user622632 on Mar 16, 2009 4:46 PM

I tend to migrate workspaces from my office to my home by using SQL*Developer-export it has the ability to create the DDL with the data option.
Then export my applications and images.
At New station with APEX installed:
1. Create the workspace using the apex_admin login.
2. Create a connection in SQL*Developer to the new workspace.
3. Run the DDL in SQL*Developer (make sure you run it as the right user).
4. Import my applications and images.
That should give you a general idea.
Try using SQL*Developer to export Dashboard and Apex_data for the DDL, then follow the steps above to migrate them to the other database.
Good luck,
Mike

How to migrate Apex users with existing passwords.

Hi Guys,
Our apex env finally getting a upgrade from 3.1.1 to 4.1.1 (I know, it's been overdue for years)
Some of our apps use 'Application Express' authentication, and have few hundreds users in Apex (and users belong to diff user groups).
The issue is, the 4.1.1 env is set up on a brand new server and DB, we want to migrate these users with their existing passwords from the 3.1.1 env.
I tried exporting the workspace, and the users are exported as below,
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     p_last_name => 'b',
     p_description => '',
     p_email_address=> '[email protected]',
     p_web_password => 'E92903DEAD135E6E86BD6B64544D2BD9',
     p_web_password_format => 'HEX_ENCODED_DIGEST_V2',
     p_group_ids => '10592435401495787816:',
     p_developer_privs=> '',
     p_default_schema=> 'TEST',
     p_account_locked=> 'N',
     p_account_expiry=> to_date('201212040000','YYYYMMDDHH24MI'),
     p_failed_access_attempts=> 0,
     p_change_password_on_first_use=> 'Y',
     p_first_password_use_occurred=> 'N',
     p_allow_access_to_schemas => '');
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when I run this in 4.1.1 I had to modify it to the new format as below,
also changed the p_group_ids to new user group but kept the password the same
     begin
     wwv_flow_fnd_user_api.create_fnd_user (
     p_user_id => '',
     p_user_name => 'TEST',
     p_first_name => 'a',
     p_last_name => 'b',
     p_description => '',
     p_email_address=> '[email protected]',
     p_web_password => 'E92903DEAD135E6E86BD6B64544D2BD9',
     p_web_password_format => 'HEX_ENCODED_DIGEST_V2',
     p_group_ids => '1399416797653068:',
     p_developer_privs=> '',
     p_default_schema=> 'TEST',
     p_account_locked=> 'N',
     p_account_expiry=> to_date('201209041006','YYYYMMDDHH24MI'),
     p_failed_access_attempts=> 0,
     p_change_password_on_first_use=> 'Y',
     p_first_password_use_occurred=> 'N',
p_allow_app_building_yn=> 'N',
p_allow_sql_workshop_yn=> 'N',
p_allow_websheet_dev_yn=> 'N',
p_allow_team_development_yn=> 'N',
p_allow_access_to_schemas => '');
     end;
the result was that the user is created fine, but the password is not valid.
Anyone knows how to export apex users with existing password to a new server?
Thanks.
Edited by: Danny on 3/12/2012 20:51

Hi,
Not sure why you say
when I run this in 4.1.1 I had to modify it to the new format as below, If you just run the workspace export sql it should create the Workspace, Groups and Users
The signature of the procedure is below. See the highlighted lines.
procedure create_fnd_user (-- Description:
-- This procedure allows for programatic and bulk creation of users.
-- Example:
-- From sqlplus logged in as the privileged flows user, first
-- ensure that the security group id is set properly, then create
-- your users.
<b> -- begin wwv_flow_security.g_security_group_id := 20; end;</b>
-- begin
-- for i in 1..10 loop
-- wwv_flow_fnd_user_api.create_fnd_user(
-- p_user_name => 'USER_'||i,
-- p_email_address => 'user_'||i||'@mycompany.com',
-- p_web_password => 'user_'||i) ;
-- end loop;
-- commit;
-- end;
-- Arguments:
-- p_user_id numeric primary key of user
-- p_user_name the username the user uses to login
-- p_first_name informational only
-- p_last_name informational only
<b> -- p_web_password the unencrypted password for the new user</b>
-- p_group_ids A colon delimited list of group IDs from the table wwv_flow_fnd_user_groups
-- p_developer_privs A colon delmited list of developer privs, privs include:
-- ADMIN:BROWSE:CREATE:DATA_LOADER:DB_MONITOR:EDIT:HELP:MONITOR:SQL:USER_MANAGER
-- p_default_schema A valid oracle schema that is the default schema for use in browsing and
-- creating flows
-- p_allow_access_to_schemas A colon delimited list of oracle schemas that the user is allowed to
-- parse as. If null the user can parse as any schema available to the company.
-- This does not provide privilege it only resticts privilege, so listing a schema
-- does not provide the privilege to parse as a schema, it only restricts that user
-- to that list of schemas.
-- p_attributes_XX These attributes allow you to store arbitary information about a given user.
-- They are for use by flow developers who want to extend user information.
<b> -- p_web_password_format Identifies the format of the web password.
-- The range of values is CLEAR_TEXT, HEX_ENCODED_DIGEST, DIGEST </b>
-- p_person_type "E" marks the user as external
-->
Note there is no HEX_ENCODED_DIGEST, DIGEST_V2 listed. It may work, but not obvious from the signature.
Cheers,

How to migrate APEX application to Oracle Public Cloud

Hi, We have 5-6 apex applications each developed on different schema with in same database and one workspace of APEX. We are considering to migrae all apex applications to Oracle Public Cloud. How we should approach about this?
Thanks
Ankit

The database as a service (DBaaS) provisioned database gives you a full 11gR2 or 12c database in the cloud. I don't believe we have trials for it today but more information can be found here:
http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/dbcs_gs/CSDBI/GUID-4AD7C69E-20FF-4C47-BB71-429A08D061B4.htm#CSDBI3315
If you have single schema apps, the schema service is a good choice but as soon as you go outside of the single schema limitation as you discovered, you might need to move to the DBaaS offering. Another benefit of the DBaaS offering is that if you wanted to move all your applications from your 11gR2 DB to the cloud, you could use all the DB data movement tools we have such as data pump, external tablespaces and transportable tablespaces to move your apps.

Converted access app to apex when run get no data found; table does have da

COnverfted MS Access app to apex. WHen I run the appliation I get no data found.
However the table does have data. HOw do I see what is actually running?
The pre-converted form saids its based on a query. The form and the query shows up as valid. I then converted the form. When I run it I get no data found. If I take the query that the form is based on and run in sqlplus I get data.
Another confusing thing is when I look at the page for the converted form, there is nothing in the source area for the region where the converted query results should be.
Did the conversion not work? How can I tell what is the source? Where should the results from the query be located?

Its a standard SQL query:
SELECT xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.msds_id,
xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.cas,
xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.alias,
xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.amount,
xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.veh_prod,
xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS.compliance
FROM xtbl_MSDS_to_CAS
The name of the above query lets say for example purposes is MYQUERY.
After looking at the page def I see that the way the conversion tool worked is that in the page definition it has this in the Processes Section:
After Header:
Fetch Row from MYQUERY.
Then it says automated Row fetch.
I compared this to another form that was converted thru the migration APex tool as well and on that form that does work I found that:
The query(form) was converted and placed in a region and the source has the query. THat is, it was not in the process section but in the region: source section.
So why does the conversion tool decide to convert one and populate as a region source and the other as a process in the page definition?
THis is all very confusing.
Hope you were able to follow me.

OAS - Weblogic Migration

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Can you pls let me know the best option to run all these application in the latest versions.
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Download link in Apex4

Hi All,
I have migrated Apex 3.2 to Apex 4.
I had interactive report with download link. It was working fine but in Apex 4 ,this is not working. Could anybody please help me with this?
Thanx
Omy

Hi All,
Please help as this is urgent.
I am giving more details:
My Report Query is:
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issue_id,
dbms_lob.getlength("P_LOG_FILE") "LOG_FILE",
progress,
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modified_by,
status,
time_spent
FROM
it_issues_progress
WHERE
issue_id =:P38_ISSUE_ID
UNION ALL
SELECT
issue_id,
null LOG_FILE,
null progress,
null Mod_date,
null modified_by,
'TOTAL',
CAST(numtodsinterval(SUM(it_total_seconds_spent(time_spent)), 'SECOND') AS interval DAY(5) TO second(2))
sum_test
FROM
it_issues_progress
WHERE
issue_id =:P38_ISSUE_ID
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Now we have below applications running in OAS.
1) Apex applications with reports
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2) If the above option does not work then we need to use Web Logic, With forms and reports plugins we can run these applications but how to run the Apex applications in Web Logic?
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Problem with Migration Forms to Apex ...

Hello !!
I discovered Apex a few days ago, so I began with the Oracle tutorials, where I found the conversion from Forms to Apex : "Converting Your Oracle Forms Applications to Application Express 3.2".
I tried to do the same, with a Unix server and my laptop with Windows.
I downloaded the Forms which where on my Unix server on my laptop, and then converted them with frmf2xml.bat.
Then I created a project and uploaded only one Forms Module (_fmb.XML). After upload, the Percent Complete column is lower than 100%.
My problem is at the following step : "Generating Your Application Express Application".
When I click on "Create Application", select "Based on Migration Project" and then on "Next", I have one of the following errors :
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I really don't understand these two errors, having yet checked all the possible error sources, user, schema, ... ?:|
I have probably forgotten to give some informations, so ask them ;)
Thanks for your help,
Pierre C.
Edited by: Pierre C. on 19 juin 2009 17:22

I found the problem(s) ... but now I have another one !!
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My block has an associated canvas and database source, whereas the other "normal" blocks haven't.
Where does the error come from ??
Is there something to do with Forms Builder ?
On my Unix server before downloading the forms ?
Another thing to do ??
Thanks,
Pierre C.

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Thanks!

The quick answer to this is no.
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I have a form name abc.fmb and I did converted to xml and imported using application migration in APEX
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Thanks,
AP.

Hi AP
i would suggest this...
Oracle Application Express (APEX)
Regards,
Abdetu...

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