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ABSTRACT: Previous studies showed that prevalence of abdominal obesity among US children and adolescents increased significantly between 1988-1994 and 2003-2004. However, little is known about recent time trends in abdominal obesity since 2003-2004.This study was to provide recent updated national estimates of childhood abdominal obesity and examine the trends in childhood abdominal obesity from 2003 to 2012.METHODS: Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted during 5 time periods (2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, and 2011-2012). A total of 16 601 US children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years were included. Abdominal obesity is defined as a waist circumference (WC) ≥ gender- and age-specific 90th percentile based on data from NHANES III (1988-1994) and a waist-to-height (WHtR) ≥0.5, respectively.RESULTS: In 2011-2012, 17.95% of children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years were abdominally obese defined by WC, and 32.93% of those aged 6 to 18 years were abdominally obese defined by WHtR. Mean WC and WHtR and prevalence of abdominal obesity kept stable between 2003-2004 and 2011-2012, independently of gender, age, and race/ethnicity. However, there was a significant decrease in abdominal obesity among children aged 2 to 5 years.CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of abdominal obesity leveled off among US children and adolescents from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012.Pediatrics. 07/2014;
Article: [Relationship between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and obesity/metabolic syndrome in children.][Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To explore the relationship between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and obesity/metabolic syndrome (MetS) related factors in children.06/2014; 35(6):621-625.
- Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine] 05/2014; 48(5):337-9.
Article: [Dietary habits of school-age children and its associations with blood pressure level in Beijing, China].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To study the dietary habits of school-age children in urban and rural districts and their association with blood pressure levels in Beijing, China.Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine] 05/2014; 48(5):340-4.
Article: Recent prevalence of hypertension among Chinese children and adolescents based on 2010 China national blood pressure references.International journal of cardiology 04/2014; · 6.18 Impact Factor
- The Lancet 04/2014; 383(9927):1463-4. · 39.21 Impact Factor
- International journal of cardiology 04/2014; · 6.18 Impact Factor
Article: [The current status of physical activity in urban school-aged children and its association with obesity].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To understand the current status of physical activity among urban school-aged children and its association with obesity.04/2014; 35(4):376-80.
Article: [Trends on the prevalence rates of obesity and cardiometabolic among children and adolescents in Beijing, during 2004-2013].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To analyze the trends on the prevalence rates of obesity and cardiometabolic among children and adolescents in Beijing, during 2004-2013.04/2014; 35(4):370-5.
Article: Secular trends of low birthweight and macrosomia and related maternal factors in Beijing, China: a longitudinal trend analysis.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Information tracking changes of birthweight is scarce in China. To examine trends of low birthweight (birthweight <2500 g) and macrosomia (birthweight >=4000 g) and potential risk factors in Beijing, hospital records from two major obstetrics and gynecology hospitals in urban districts in Beijing were analyzed. Hospital records from 1996 to 2010 were retrieved. Information of prenatal examination and birth outcomes was entered into a structured database. Live births were used for trend analysis. Information of live births in 2010 was used to identify potential risk factors. A total of 63 661 live births were delivered during 1996-2010 in the study hospitals. The average birthweight increased from 3271 g in 1996 to 3 359 g in 2000 and slightly declined to 3 331 in 2010. The percentage of low birthweight fluctuated around 4.0%. No significant increase or decrease was observed. Preterm birth was the main cause of low birthweight, accounting for more than 73% of low birthweight. The average percentage of macrosomia was 7.6%. The percentages of macrosomia increased from 6.6% in 1996 to 9.5% in 2000 and declined to 7.0% in 2010. Excessive gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes were significantly associated with macrosomia. Continuously monitoring abnormal birthweight is needed and intervention should focus on appropriate gestational weight gain and reduction of preterm birth and gestational diabetes.BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 03/2014; 14(1):105. · 2.52 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A great number of body mass index (BMI)/obesity-related loci have been identified by recent genome-wide association studies. The objective of the study is to investigate the associations of 11 obesity-related loci with insulin resistance (IR) in a Chinese children population. Participants included 3,468 Chinese children, aged 6-18 years. The 75 percentile (equal to 2.93) of homeostasis model assessment of IR (HOMA-IR) index was considered as the cut-off of IR. A total of 868 IR cases and 2,600 control children were identified. In age- and sex-adjusted model, only two SNPs in/near GNPDA2 and KCTD15 genes were significantly associated with risk of IR [GNPDA2 rs10938397: allelic odds ratio (OR) = 1.19, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.06-1.34, P = 0.003; KCTD15 rs29941: allelic OR = 1.15, 95 % CI = 1.01-1.31, P = 0.034]; genetic risk score was also significantly associated risk of IR (OR = 1.08, 95 % 1.04-1.12, P = 1.18 × 10(-4)). After additional adjustment for BMI, none remained significant. The associations of GNPDA2 rs10938397 and the SNPs in combination with risk of IR remained statistically significant after correction for multiple testing. The present study demonstrated that the associations of GNPDA2 rs10938397 and the SNPs in combination with risk of IR were statistically significant, which were dependent on BMI.Endocrine 03/2014; · 1.42 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: To describe the trend of multiple pregnancies and to compare the results with single pregnancy in Beijing from 1996 to 2010. Prevalence rates of pregnancy complications were compared between multiple and single pregnancies. In 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2010, live births in two hospitals in Beijing were included to describe the trend of multiple and single pregnancy. Case-retrospective analyses were used. Information was collected, including maternal age, fetus number, delivery mode, with/without pregnancy induced diseases as hypertension, diabetes or anemia, gender of the baby, birth-weight and gestation etc. Linear regression analyses were applied to assess the trend of birth-weight and the rates of prevalence. 63 661 babies and 62 895 puerperal were involved in this study. From 1996 to 2010, prevalence of multiple pregnancies increased by 0.02%, prevalence of cesarean delivery among multiple pregnancy women increased by 2.25% and the proportion of women older than 30 years increased by 3.52% and 2.89% among multiple or single pregnancy women, annually. However, the birth-weight did not show obvious change in both multiple and single birth babies. No obvious change was observed in the prevalence of low birth weight. Prevalence rates of premature birth increased by 1.62% and 0.16% among multiple and single pregnancy women, annually. From 1996 to 2010, the mean values of birth-weight among single birth babies were larger than 3 250 grams and under 2 500 gram among multiple birth babies. Rates of prevalence on pregnancy induced hypertension and anemia were higher in multiple pregnancy women than in single pregnancy women. Differences of rates on prevalence rates of pregnancy diabetes between multiple and single pregnancy women were not statistically significant. Prevalence of multiple pregnancies increased from 1995 to 2010 in Beijing. Mothers of multiples were more likely to get pregnancy complication than the single pregnancy women.Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi 03/2014; 35(3):276-9.
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ABSTRACT: Historical research is limited in changes in pubertal development in Chinese girls. We aimed to identify the timing of pubertal characteristics and the secular trend of menarche age among Beijing girls from the 1980s through the 2000s. Six data sets were analyzed, including the Beijing Child and Adolescent Metabolic Syndrome study in 2004, where 9778 Bejing girls aged 6-18 years were studied. The Fetal Origins of Adult Disease study provided retrospective menarche age from 1940 through 1960. Other four studies were conducted in Beijing to obtain supplementary information to assess secular trend in menarche age. Linear regression method was used to analyze the data. Among Beijing girls in 2004, the median age at menarche was 12.1 years, which was 0.6 years earlier in urban than in rural areas. The median age at Breast Tanner Stage 2 was 9.5±1.2 years, representing 9.4±1.1 years and 9.6±1.2 years for urban and rural girls, respectively. In contrast, the median age at Pubic Hair Tanner Stage 2 was 11.1±1.1 years, representing 10.8±1.1 and 11.4±1.1 years for urban and rural girls, respectively. The menarche age of urban girls decreased by 4.2 months per decade, and that of rural girls by 9.6 months per decade from 1980 to 2004. Urban girls mature earlier than rural girls in Beijing. A secular trend towards earlier menarche was observed between the 1980s and the 2000s.World Journal of Pediatrics 02/2014; 10(1):74-9. · 1.08 Impact Factor
Article: [Association between different types of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in school-aged children].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper was to analyze the association between different types of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs)in school-aged children. 3508 children aged 6-18 years old including 2 054 non-obese and 1 454 obese children were chosen as the population under study, from Beijing Children and Adolescents Metabolic Syndrome Study. Demographic data was collected through questionnaires while height, weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure were measured through physical check-up. Fasting blood glucose and blood lipids were also tested. Children were divided into four groups:without obesity, with general obesity, with abdominal obesity and with combined obesity. CRFs including dyslipidemia, impaired fasting glucose (IFG), and hypertension were scored. Multiple linear regression and logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the association between different types of obesity and CRFs. From non-obese children, children under general-obesity, abdominal obesity and those with combined types of obesity, there appeared an increasing trend in the levels of blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood lipids, the prevalence dyslipidemia and hypertension (P < 0.001). There were no significant differences in the risks of IFG among four types of obesity. After controlling for age, sex, and puberty stage, when compared with non-obese children, those children with abdominal obesity or combined types of obesity had 1.54 and 2.51 times of risks to only one CRF, while generally obese children had similar risk of dyslipidemia. When compared to the non-obese ones, children with general obesity, abdominal obesity, or combined types of obesity showed 3.32, 2.21 and 7.42 times of risks to ≥2 CRFs and 3.10, 3.67 and 10.75 times of risks to ≥3 CRFs. The cluster of CRFs increased with the levels of obesity (P < 0.001). Levels and cluster of CRFs were increasing along with the levels of obesity in school-aged children in Beijing. Children with combined types of obesity had the highest risk of clustering CRFs, followed by those with abdominal obesity and general obesity.Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi 01/2014; 35(1):3-8.
Article: Age- and Sex-Dependent Association between FTO rs9939609 and Obesity-Related Traits in Chinese Children and Adolescents.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The associations between common variants in the fat mass- and obesity-associated (FTO) gene and obesity-related traits may be age-dependent and may differ by sex. The present study aimed to assess the association of FTO rs9939609 with body mass index (BMI) and the risk of obesity from childhood to adolescence, and to determine the age at which the association becomes evident. Totally 757 obese and 2,746 non-obese Chinese children aged 6-18 years were genotyped for FTO rs9939609. Of these, a young sub-cohort (n = 777) aged 6-11 years was reexamined 6 years later. Obesity was defined using the sex- and age-specific BMI cut-offs recommended by the International Obesity Task Force. The associations of FTO rs9939609 with BMI and obesity did not appear until children reached 12-14 years. The variant was associated with an increased BMI in boys (β = 1.50, P = 0.004) and girls (β = 0.97, P = 0.018), respectively. Thereafter, the magnitude of association increased in girls at ages 15-18 years (β = 2.02, P<0.001), but not boys (β = 0.10, P>0.05). Age was found to interact with the variant on BMI (P<0.001) and obesity (P = 0.042) only in girls. In the sub-cohort, the associations of FTO rs9939609 with BMI (β = 1.07, P = 0.008) and obesity (OR = 2.09, 95% CI: 1.12, 3.91) were only observed 6 years later (ages 12-18 years) in girls, even after adjusting for baseline BMI. The association between FTO rs9939609 and obesity-related traits may change from childhood to adolescence in Chinese individuals, and the association may start as early as age 12 years, especially in girls.PLoS ONE 01/2014; 9(5):e97545. · 3.53 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with body mass index (BMI)/obesity. In this study, we aim to examine the associations of obesity related loci with risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a children population from China. A total of 431 children with MetS and 3046 controls were identified based on the modified ATPIII definition. 11 SNPs (FTO rs9939609, MC4R rs17782313, GNPDA2 rs10938397, BDNF rs6265, FAIM2 rs7138803, NPC1 rs1805081, SEC16B rs10913469, SH2B1 rs4788102, PCSK1rs6235, KCTD15 rs29941, BAT2 rs2844479) were genotyped by TaqMan 7900. Of 11 SNPs, GNPDA2 rs10938397, BDNF rs6265, and FAIM2 rs7138803 were nominally associated with risk of MetS (GNPDA2 rs10938397: odds ratio (OR)=1.21, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.04-1.40, p=0.016; BDNF rs6265: OR=1.19, 95%CI=1.03-1.39, p=0.021; FAIM2 rs7138803: OR=1.20, 95%CI=1.02-1.40, P=0.025); genetic risk score (GRS) was significantly associated with risk of MetS (OR=1.09, 95%CI=1.04-1.15, P=5.26×10(-4)). After further adjustment for BMI, none of SNPs were associated with risk of MetS (all P>0.05); the association between GRS and risk of MetS remained nominally (OR=1.02, 95%CI=0.96-1.08, P=0.557). However, after correction for multiple testing, only GRS was statistically associated with risk of MetS in the model without adjustment for BMI. The present study demonstrated that there were nominal associations of GNPDA2 rs10938397, BDNF rs6265, and FAIM2 rs7138803 with risk of MetS. The SNPs in combination has the significant effect on risk of MetS. These associations above were mediated by adiposity.Gene 11/2013; · 2.20 Impact Factor
Article: Insulin resistance determined by Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA) and associations with metabolic syndrome among Chinese children and teenagers.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to assess the association between the degree of insulin resistance and the different components of the metabolic syndrome among Chinese children and adolescents. Moreover, to determine the cut-off values for homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) at MS risk. 3203 Chinese children aged 6 to 18 years were recruited. Anthropometric and biochemical parameters were measured. Metabolic syndrome (MS) was identified by a modified Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) definition. HOMA-IR index was calculated and the normal reference ranges were defined from the healthy participants. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to find the optimal cutoff of HOMA-IR for diagnosis of MS. With the increase of insulin resistance (quintile of HOMA-IR value), the ORs of suffering MS or its related components were significantly increased. Participants in the highest quintile of HOMA-IR were about 60 times more likely to be classified with metabolic syndrome than those in the lowest quintile group. Similarly, the mean values of insulin and HOMA-IR increased with the number of MS components. The present HOMA-IR cutoff point corresponding to the 95th percentile of our healthy reference children was 3.0 for whole participants, 2.6 for children in prepubertal stage and 3.2 in pubertal period, respectively. The optimal point for diagnosis of MS was 2.3 in total participants, 1.7 in prepubertal children and 2.6 in pubertal adolescents, respectively, by ROC curve, which yielded high sensitivity and moderate specificity for a screening test. According to HOMA-IR > 3.0, the prevalence of insulin resistance in obese or MS children were 44.3% and 61.6% respectively. Our data indicates insulin resistance is common among Chinese obese children and adolescents, and is strongly related to MS risk, therefore requiring consideration early in life. As a reliable measure of insulin resistance and assessment of MS risk, the optimal HOMA-IR cut-off points in this cohort were developed with variation regarding puberty. HOMA-IR may be useful for early evaluating insulin resistance in children and teenagers and could have a long-term benefit of preventive and diagnostic therapeutic intervention.Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome 11/2013; 5(1):71. · 1.92 Impact Factor
- Biomedical and Environmental Sciences 10/2013; 26(10):787-91. · 1.15 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified many candidate genes that are associated with blood lipid and lipoprotein concentrations. In this study, we want to know whether the results from European for lipid-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are generalizable to Chinese children. We genotyped seven SNPs in Chinese school-age children (n = 3,503) and assessed the associations of these SNPs with lipids profiles and dyslipidemia. After false discovery rate correction, of the seven SNPs, six (rs2144300, p ~ 9.30 × 10(-3); rs1260333, p ~ 6.20 × 10(-11); rs1260326, p ~ 8.73 × 10(-11); rs10105606, p ~ 0.010; rs1748195, p ~ 0.016 and rs964184, p ~ 2.33 × 10(-13)) showed strong association with triglycerides. Three SNPs (rs1260333, p ~ 3.30 × 10(-3); rs1260326, p ~ 4.39 × 10(-3) and rs2954029, p ~ 6.36 × 10(-4)) showed strong association with total cholesterol. Two SNPs (rs10105606, p ~ 6.66 × 10(-4) and rs1748195, p ~ 2.55 × 10(-3)) showed strong association with high density lipoprotein cholesterol. Four SNPs (rs1260333, p ~ 0.017; rs1260326, p ~ 0.013; rs2954029, p ~ 1.09 × 10(-3) and rs964184, p ~ 5.51 × 10(-3)) showed strong association with low density lipoprotein cholesterol. There were significant associations between rs1260333 (OR is 0.82, 95 % CI 0.74-0.92, p ~ 3.96 × 10(-4)), rs1260326 (OR is 0.82, 95 % CI 0.74-0.92, p ~ 5.31 × 10(-4)), and rs964184 (OR is 1.36, 95 % CI 1.20-1.55, p ~ 1.89 × 10(-6)) and dyslipidemia. These SNPs generated strong combined effects on lipid profiles and dyslipidemia. Our study demonstrates that SNPs associated with lipids from European GWA studies also play roles in Chinese children, which broadened the understanding of lipids metabolism.Human Genetics 07/2013; · 4.63 Impact Factor
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I have a standard tabular report with checkboxes on each row, and a multi-record delete button called MULTI_ROW_DELETE.
If the user clicks the button before selecting any records (or if there are no records), they get an error message. Instead, I'd rather hide the button and only show it when they have selected one or more records.
To do this:
1. Edit the MULTI_ROW_DELETE button to have a Static ID (e.g. "MULTI_ROW_DELETE").
2. Add this function to the page's Function and Global Variable Declaration:
function ShowHideMultiRowDelete () { if ($("input[id^='f01_']:checked").length==0) { $x_Hide("MULTI_ROW_DELETE"); } else { $x_Show("MULTI_ROW_DELETE"); } }
This looks to see if there are any checkboxes selected, if none are found it hides the delete button, otherwise it shows it.
3. Add this code to the page's Execute when Page Loads:
ShowHideMultiRowDelete(); $("input[id^='f01_']").change(function(){ShowHideMultiRowDelete();}); $x_Hide("check-all-rows");
This does the initial check on form load (i.e. it initially hides the button, since none of the checkboxes will be selected yet), and adds a listener to the checkboxes so that if any of them are changed, the function is re-run to show or hide the button as needed.
Unfortunately this doesn't work with the "all rows" checkbox that was generated by the tabular report, so I've added a step to hide that checkbox ("check-all-rows") until I can find a solution for that.
If you're building a "finance-ey" application you probably have plenty of fields that should show and accept monetary amounts – and quite possibly these items may be implemented in a variety of ways – ordinary apex number items, edit fields in tabular reports, or even dynamically generated items using APEX_ITEM.text.
In my case I had all three, scattered throughout the application. Our users routinely deal with multi-million dollar amounts and they had trouble checking the amounts visually, especially when there are a lot of zeros, e.g. "10000010.00" – so they asked for them all to be formatted with commas, e.g. "10,000,010.00".
Step 1. SQL number format
So in my first release of the apex application I applied the "FM999G999G999G999G990D00″ format to all the money amount items, including in reports etc. The users were reasonably happy with this, but thought it wasn't working in all cases – e.g. they'd type in a new amount, and the item wouldn't get formatted until after they Saved the record. This is because the format is only applied when the Apex rendering engine is formatting the page for display – it doesn't apply it dynamically as the items are changed.
Step 2. Dynamic Actions using SQL
So I started adding dynamic actions to all the apex items which would call the database to format the amount every time the item was changed. This was ok, but performance wasn't that great – there was a visible sub-second delay while the page did an ajax call to the database just to do the formatting.
Step 3. Dynamic Actions using Javascript
So then I found a Javascript money formatter and modified my dynamic actions to call that instead. The only downside is that it is not internationally-aware. In my case this application's target users are all here in Australia, are in the education industry, and they haven't complained about the lack of international money-formatting support (yet).
Number.prototype.formatMoney = function(decPlaces, thouSep, decSep) { var n = this ,decPlaces = isNaN(decPlaces = Math.abs(decPlaces)) ? 2 : decPlaces ,decSep = decSep == undefined ? "." : decSep ,thouSep = thouSep == undefined ? "," : thouSep ,sign = n < 0 ? "-" : "" ,i = parseInt(n = Math.abs(+n || 0).toFixed(decPlaces)) + "" ,j = (j = i.length) > 3 ? j % 3 : 0; return sign + (j ? i.substr(0, j) + thouSep : "") + i.substr(j).replace(/(\d{3})(?=\d)/g, "$1" + thouSep) + (decPlaces ? decSep + Math.abs(n - i).toFixed(decPlaces).slice(2) : ""); };
That worked really well, there was no visible delay, and the users were pleased. But I wasn't satisfied – this trick doesn't work on the tabular reports or on my APEX_ITEM-generated items.
Step 4. jQuery to the rescue!
So I've gone back to the drawing table and decided that I don't want to have to add Dynamic Actions to each and every item that needs it, which doesn't work for the items that are generated dynamically (e.g. when the user adds a record to a tabular report). This formatting should be applied automatically to each item, and the only thing I'm going to add to each item is a CSS class. I needed to use some jquery to dynamically bind some javascript to every item that has a particular class, even if the item is added after the page has loaded.
This stackoverflow question came in useful. I added the following to my global javascript file:
$(document).ready(function() { $( document ).on('change', '.edit_money', function(){ var i = "#"+$(this).attr("id") ,v = parseFloat($(i).val().replace(/,/g,''))||0; $(i).val( v.formatMoney() ); }); });
All I have to do is add the "edit_money" class to all my money items. For ordinary Apex items, you put the class in the HTML Form Element CSS Classes attribute. For items in a tabular report, the same attribute is under Column Attributes, called Element CSS Classes.
For items generated using APEX_ITEM, I just had to add some extra parameters (p_attributes and p_item_id), e.g.
SELECT APEX_ITEM.text (p_idx => 2 ,p_size => 16 ,p_maxlength => 22 ,p_attributes => 'class="edit_money" style="text-align:right"' ,p_item_id => 'f02_'||TO_CHAR(ROWNUM,'fm0000') ) ...
So, that was a reasonably good couple of hour's work, I think. I'm not the world's expect on javascript or jquery by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm quite happy with the result so far. I'm sure there are even better ways of doing this, so if you know of a better way please comment.
You want a checkbox item on a page which is a preference, you want it to be remembered for the user across login sessions, but you don't want the overhead of storing it in a database table. You might choose to store the value in a cookie instead. It may be lost (e.g. when the user clears their cookies or changes to a different browser or another computer), but we don't mind – it's just a preference.
1. Create checkbox item, e.g. P1_STAY_ON_PAGE
Display As = Checkbox
Template = No Label
List of values definition =
STATIC2:Stay on page;Y
2. Add dynamic action to the checkbox item to save it when it's changed
Event = Change
Selection Type = Item(s)
Item(s) = P1_STAY_ON_PAGE
Condition = (none)
True Action = Execute JavaScript Code
Fire On Page Load = (No)
Code =
3. Add dynamic action on page load to load it
Event = Page Load
True Action = Execute JavaScript Code
Code =
Note that the cookie name ("APEX_P1_STAY_ON_PAGE" in this example) is up to you to choose. Probably best to try making it specific to your application so it doesn't clash with anything else.
I had built and was managing a web site that takes registrations from thousands of people around the state for a variety of sporting events. One of the goals of the site is to collect better quality data for the people running the events, i.e. they basically needed to get a better handle on how many people were actually attending.
One of the other goals of the site was to make it as easy and hassle-free as possible for anyone to register. This meant that requiring people to sign up for an account with usernames and passwords was undesirable, so make it possible for someone to just sign up with all their info in one session (i.e. never authenticated), then never return.
This also meant that if someone started to register one day, but abandoned their "shopping cart" (so to speak), and then came back the next day, they happily re-entered all their info again – which caused duplicate records to appear in the database. Someone accidentally closes their browser – another duplicate record. Someone signs up their friend on their behalf, not knowing their friend had already signed up – another duplicate record. Someone with very little computer experience gets an error (e.g. "Date of birth must be entered.") and responds by closing the browser and restarting – and doing this multiple times – we got five duplicate records from this person.
So I built an automated alert system which would email the team coordinators a list of the duplicate records, based on a simple case-insensitive match on first name + surname (we did have one case last year where two different people happened to have the same name, but this is a very rare occurrence when you're talking about only a few thousand people). I also built a de-duplicator which allowed me to compare two records side-by-side and delete one of them.
In the crunch week (the week before nominations close), we were getting 40+ registrations per day – and each day I was deleting 4 or 5 duplicate records. I thought there must be a better way.
So I (naïvely) quietly added a simple validation check to the signup page – if the player's name was already registered it showed the error message "Sorry, a registration under you name has already been created. Please login to change your registration." along with my contact details.
It worked, kind of – immediately I got 3 emails and 1 phone call from people who had started their signup, having earlier ignored or missed the email with their login details, and tried to sign up again. I made sure they could login, and they were able to update their existing registration without creating duplicate records. I was quietly optimistic that it would work better now.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. A few days later (today, actually) I decided to do an audit to see if my change had actually made things better or not. I suspected that some people might ignore that error message and just put in a different name. My suspicion was warranted, as it turns out.
So far I've gone through over 800 records and found variances of "Bloggs, Joe" or "Bloggs, Joe B" or "Bloggso, Joe" or "Bloggs Is My Name, Joe" scattered throughout. All my validation had done was put a roadblock in front of the users, who simply drove around it by putting in a slightly different name (I saw a lot of them simply put in their middle name), and now (more importantly) my de-duplicator is useless because it only finds matches on exact given names and surnames.
I've removed the validation. The duplicate records are manageable, and the system is overall easier for everyone with less validation.
This is an idea for an enhancement to the PL/SQL syntax.
If I have the following declaration:
DECLARE in_record mytable%ROWTYPE; out_record mytable%ROWTYPE; BEGIN
I can do this:
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES in_record;
I can also do this:
UPDATE mytable SET ROW = in_record WHERE ...;
I can do this, as long as I list each and every column, in the right order:
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES in_record RETURNING cola, colb, colc INTO out_record;
But I can't do this:
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES in_record RETURNING ROW INTO out_record;
Can we make this happen, Oracle?
Scott Wesley has started an excellent series of posts exploring the Early Adopter release of Apex 5.0.
I'm excited about the changes in 5.0 but have been too busy both at work and at home to look into it personally – so for now reading other people's reviews has had to suffice. I'm looking forward to hopefully hearing more about it at AUSOUG later this year.
My advice is, have a look and give it a go sometime. In other words, do as I say, not as I do :)
One of my clients reported an issue – they were seeing "Waiting for 22.214.171.124″ and a blank screen when they tried to access the Apex web site I'd built for them. They were using Mozilla on a Windows PC, connecting via Vodaphone 3G – the problem was consistent, and it went away when they used their ADSL connection.
My initial response was "don't use Vodaphone 3G" because the problem seemed to be outside of my area. It appears to be a common issue, something that some mobile operators do to reduce image sizes – c.f. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/791180 and http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/277895-suspected-issue-waiting-for-1234-in-firefox-on-at/
My client did a little more digging (he's a techie as well) and found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4113268/how-to-stop-javascript-injection-from-vodafone-proxy
After reading that I said I'd give it another go and see what could be done. As far as I could see, the only really viable solution is to add the "Cache-Control: no-transform" header to the responses. Since I'm using Apache, to do this I added the following to my apache config as per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_headers.html:
Header merge Cache-Control no-transform
That seemed to fix the problem. What this header does is instruct all intermediaries to not modify the content in any way – i.e. don't try to recompress the images, don't inject any extra CSS or javascript into the page, nothing. Adding this header does carry the risk that performance on some mobile networks may suffer (because they will no longer do the image compression), so it's now up to me to make sure my pages and images are as small as possible.
Instead of calling a function, when you can get the same effect by accessing a documented PL/SQL variable, you should. For example:
v('APP_USER') = APEX_APPLICATION.g_user v('REQUEST') = APEX_APPLICATION.g_request v('APP_ID') = APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_id v('APP_PAGE_ID') = APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_step_id v('DEBUG') = APEX_APPLICATION.g_debug
(Note –
g_debug is a boolean, unlike the
v() equivalent)
There's more here: documentation for the APEX_APPLICATION package
I suspect that the implementation of
v() is something like this [EDIT: read the comments for more commentary on this, and a more accurate picture of what v() actually does]:
FUNCTION v (p_name IN VARCHAR2) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS res VARCHAR2(4000); BEGIN CASE p_name WHEN 'APP_ID' THEN res := APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_id; WHEN 'APP_USER' THEN res := APEX_APPLICATION.g_user; WHEN 'DEBUG' THEN IF APEX_APPLICATION.g_debug THEN res := 'YES'; ELSE res := 'NO'; END IF; WHEN 'REQUEST' THEN res := APEX_APPLICATION.g_request; ... etc. ... ELSE BEGIN SELECT s.item_value INTO res FROM wwv_<session-values-or-something> s WHERE s.item_name = p_name AND s.flow_id = APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_id AND s.session_id = APEX_APPLICATION.g_instance; EXCEPTION WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN RETURN NULL; END; END CASE; RETURN res; END v;
In addition, instead of calling
v('APP_SESSION') /
v('SESSION'), you could call the undocumented function
APEX_APPLICATION.get_session_id instead, which is probably faster, or refer to the global variable
APEX_APPLICATION.g_instance instead. I would suspect that the function normally just returns
g_instance anyway, but it's possible there's some more logic behind the function.
Disclaimer: use undocumented bits at your own risk.
Some other undocumented goodies that may be useful include (and a lot of these are not available at all via
APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_alias = application alias
APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_name = application name
APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_version = application version string
APEX_APPLICATION.g_flow_status = app availability status code, e.g.
APEX_APPLICATION.g_build_status = app build status code, e.g.
APEX_APPLICATION.g_base_href = the base URL for the site, not including the
f?p=... bit
APEX_APPLICATION.g_printer_friendly =
TRUE if the page was requested with Printer Friendly flag
APEX_APPLICATION.g_excel_format =
TRUE if the page's report is being rendered in CSV format
APEX_APPLICATION.g_date_format = Application default date format
APEX_APPLICATION.g_date_time_format = Application date time format
APEX_APPLICATION.g_timestamp_format = Application default timestamp format
APEX_APPLICATION.g_timestamp_tz_format = Application default timestamp with time zone format
You can have a peek at all the globals in this package with this query (but be warned, any undocumented ones may change, and may not necessarily be set to any meaningful value when your code is running):
select owner, trim(text) from dba_source where name = 'WWV_FLOW' and type = 'PACKAGE' and ltrim(text) like 'g%' order by owner desc, line;
I decided to try using a wrapper procedure to isolate calls to APEX_UTIL.set_session_state in an autonomous transaction. I'm currently using it in a project and seeing how it goes in terms of performance.
DISCLAIMER: Don't just throw this into your mission-critical system without at least testing it thoroughly first.
Since I had Morten Braten's Alexandria library handy, I simply modified his APEX_UTIL_PKG. If you're not using this library you can create your own wrapper quite simply:
create or replace procedure sv (p_name in varchar2 ,p_value in varchar2 := NULL) as PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION; begin APEX_UTIL.set_session_state (p_name => p_name ,p_value => p_value); COMMIT; end sv;
Since my system has many schemas (one for each application), I would compile this in a "common" schema and then grant execute on it to the schemas that need it, and create local synonyms in each one so that my applications just need to call sv.
As Joel Kallman rightly points out, putting set_session_state in an autonomous transaction means that the new value will not be visible to the rest of the calling code, so for example the call to v() will not return 'Joe' here:
sv('P1_NAME', 'Joe'); x := v('P1_NAME'); -- will not be 'Joe'
Therefore, it is intended that sv() be used as the final step in any procedure, e.g.:
PROCEDURE p1_controller IS p1_name VARCHAR2(100); BEGIN p1_name := v('P1_NAME'); <business logic that does something with/to p1_name> sv('P1_NAME', p1_name); END;
When should you commit or rollback a transaction? As late as possible, I would have thought, based on most of the advice in the Oracle world. You certainly want this to be predictable and consistent, at least.
Unfortunately, if you use
APEX_UTIL.set_session_state in your PL/SQL process, the result is not so predictable.
Thanks to Martin D'Souza who alerted me to this. I love learning new things, but occasionally you get a bad surprise like this and it's not so pleasant.
Test case set up – create a table with a single row, and create a simple Apex application with one page, with one region, with an item (P1_N) and a Submit button.
CREATE TABLE test (N NUMBER); INSERT INTO test VALUES (1); COMMIT;
Add an On Submit process to the page which fires when the Submit button is clicked, which executes the following:
BEGIN UPDATE test SET n = 3; COMMIT; APEX_UTIL.set_session_state('P1_N', 1); UPDATE test SET n = 2; APEX_UTIL.set_session_state('P1_N', 1); ROLLBACK; END;
What value would you expect to see in the database table now? I would have expected that the table would hold the value 3 – and indeed, it does.
Modify the process slightly – after the second update, set the item to something different:
BEGIN UPDATE test SET n = 3; COMMIT; APEX_UTIL.set_session_state('P1_N', 1); UPDATE test SET n = 2; APEX_UTIL.set_session_state('P1_N', 4); --changed here ROLLBACK; END;
This time, the second update to the table has been committed before we issued our ROLLBACK. The new value 2 has been saved to the database. Why?
It's because
APEX_UTIL.set_session_state will issue a COMMIT – but only if the value of the item is changed. If you happen to call
set_session_state with the value that the item already has, it does nothing, and does not COMMIT. I understand why a COMMIT is ultimately necessary (Apex session state is stored in a table) – but I disagree that it's necessary for it to commit my (potentially partial) transaction along with it.
This means that if an exception is raised somewhere in my process, the resulting rollback may or may not rollback the entire transaction, depending on whether any prior calls to
set_session_state happened to COMMIT or not. This is difficult to predict and therefore makes debugging harder. Not to mention the fact that it violates the general principle of "either the whole transaction succeeds and is COMMITted, or it fails and the whole transaction is rolled back". I'm sorry, Apex, but you should not arbitrarily commit part of my transaction without at least telling me.
Mitigations for this? I'm not sure yet. One suggestion from this forum thread was to make the procedure use an autonomous transaction. This would align it more closely to what most developers would expect, I think. Unfortunately it appears the suggestion was rejected (or put on hold indefinitely).
I'm planning on refactoring my code to shift all calls to
set_session_state to as late in the process as possible; in addition, I'm thinking that I would put an explicit COMMIT prior to these calls so that my code would have more predictable behaviour. But the idea of wrapping
set_session_state in a wrapper procedure with an autonomous transaction seems good to try out as well.


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Did we really ever have it quite so bad? One-off drama Legacy, the latest addition to the BBC's Cold War season, took us back to 1974, civil unrest, power-cuts and the three-day-week. And in Spyland, that nether world of lost certainties and perennial jadedness, the weather's rarely great anyway. So the lack of sun in Paula Milne's tight and nuanced adaptation of the Alan Judd novel was no surprise: the clouds of le Carré were lowering.
Which made the yellow Rover driven by rookie spy Charles Thoroughgood (Charlie Cox) about the brightest thing around (along with the red telephone boxes). Whether it was a good thing allowing a fellow whose job seemed to have been to stay rather out of the limelight so raunchy a motor was a question that his higher-ups at MI6, led by the lugubrious Hookey (Simon Russell Beale), seemed not to have considered.
It must have come in handy, though, when the lights went out all over London. Which, following historian Dominic Sandbrook – whose documentary series Strange Days: Cold War Britain has been a fellow-traveller in this Cold War season, and whose works of history certainly influenced Legacy – they frequently did. And that was before any lethal Soviet (well, Russian, since that was the way the national foe was most often referred to here) plot to kibosh the national infrastructure in a big way had even been unearthed. You wondered why they were bothering so hard, when the locals were doing such a good job wrecking the place on their own.
This was a world of murky espionage loyalties, double-bluffed emotions. Thoroughgood, first seen quaffing a whisky for breakfast – spirits were obviously as much part of the MI6 working day as in Mad Men, and everyone was smoking away like there was no tomorrow (there might not be) – had been brought in to turn Viktor (Andrew Scott), an old pal from their Oxford days. Viktor was back in Blighty, senior at the Russian embassy, and both of them knew they had more on the agenda than just renewing an old friendship.
Round one had Viktor delivering one hell of a blow to his friend's solar plexus, which left the hapless Charles reeling. More questions of loyalty, this time stretching to the very roots of Charles's identity. It was almost enough to send him into the arms of Anna (Romola Garai), the wife of another MI6-er who'd seen better days himself. Anna had already witnessed the damage the service could do on a human level, though could never quite make the leap to rescue Charles – or herself (pictured right: Romola Garai with Charlie Cox).
So they ended up in each others' arms only briefly, which was less than you could say for Viktor and Eva (Olivia Grant), the high class escort who was there to remind us, not least, that nothing had changed since the days of Profumo and all that, when of course (unlike here) we all had it really rather good. Round two resoundingly to Charles, even if that saw Eva's role cruelly abridged.
Legacy could have occupied longer than the 90 minutes that director Pete Travis gave it. Once those espionage hooks had been cast, there surely could have been room for a second episode to haul them in. As it was we got a slightly perfunctory couple of senior KGB ops arriving practically deus ex-machina, before all foreign guests departed (via Stansted: everyone was economising), and a denouement that seemed on the hurried side. It also took a bit of puzzling over to work out just what had happened.
It was a spook world populated with emotional ciphers, the kind who achieve considerable screen presence without us realising that they don't have lives outside the office (especially Russell Beale, pictured above, who excelled in definition by detail: he'd be a shoo-in for Lech Walesa these days if that role ever comes around in English). If Hookey really managed to pull off the film's final deception, we may be in for a follow-up. (On the other hand, he may have been lying, perfectly in character, about everything). Which would be something to look forward to, because Legacy was gripping in a slow-burn way, and very nicely captured in lensing from Felix Widermann, especially good in the (many) low-light moments. Ruth Barrett's score was around for most of the film and, bar a moment or two when it seemed a touch over-emphatic, created just the right atmosphere of unease.
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The bond issuance could be forced to a Nov. 2 referendum, however, if at least 7.5 percent of eligible county voters file a petition with the county clerk within 30 days of the public notice, which was published in the Rockford Journal in the middle of August.
The issuance of debt is related to the board's December decision to purchase the City Plaza, 555 N. Court St. in Rockford, for the building's $775,000 market value as part of a plan to consolidate three Health Department facilities in one central location. Remodeling and upgrades to the building, much of which has already been approved by board members, will cost millions of dollars, however.
Earlier in August, McDermaid Roofing was awarded a $167,397 bid to replace the building's roof. $245,500 for architectural services related to remodeling was awarded to Richard L. Johnson Associates, Inc., in March, followed by a $2,425,000 contract to Rockford Structures Construction for the physical work. In July, $405,464 was allocated for Trane, of Madison, Wis., to replace the four-story building's heating and cooling systems.
Steve Schultz (R-2) and John F. Sweeney (R-14) are the only board members to have consistently voted against the expenditures, including the initial purchase of the building.
According to Mike Bacon, public health administrator, 60 percent of the purchase price would be covered by grant dollars. Property taxes and increased fees are expected to knock out the remaining 40 percent. The honoring of existing leases should be enough to cover debt service payments, officials anticipate.
Also during the Aug. 26 meeting, board members will vote whether to increase fees for the Health Department's Environmental Division.
For a full report of the Aug. 26 meeting, see our online edition.
Zoning request involving septic to face a vote in September
In other upcoming board news, a petition to rezone approximately 10 acres at 56XX N. Main Road in Owen Township from agricultural to commercial is expected to return to the board floor Sept. 23 after having been laid over several times since July at the request of the petitioners.
The board's Zoning Committee voted 4-3 to recommend denial of the request, despite a unanimous recommendation for approval by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The request is in conflict with the county's 2030 land-use plan, which discourages new developments on septic systems.
Because the development is not planned for connection to public infrastructure, the City of Rockford has filed as a legal objector, which would mean the petition would require a supermajority—at least 21 of 28 votes in favor—for approval.
Todd Cagnoni, deputy director of the city's Community Development Department's Construction & Development Services Division, explained, "This property is within the city's future urban development [area], and we want to ensure that the property develops in a positive manner on this important gateway to our community."
When the issue came to the board floor for a vote Aug. 12, Zoning Committee Chairman John F. Sweeney (R-14) explained he'd received a letter from the petitioner's attorney, Barton Henbest, requesting that the matter be laid over until the Sept. 23 meeting as negotiations continue among the city and petitioner.
"We are currently in discussions with the property owner and evaluating solutions that meet both our concerns," Cagnoni indicated, noting that, for now, the city's objection still stands.
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