APEX 26.1 Understanding the Metric Card Attributes
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The Metric Card is new? Is it good? Yes its good. Why? its Native, its easy to configure. The attributes make sense even with the niggles - read on to see what I mean.
How is this attribute used?
Which attribute goes where? I made this colossal image to show you how all the attributes are represented. Click to Zoom in
This is from the Universal Theme application.
You can see that:
Its Attribute Controlled
Its not controlled, as I was expecting, by Template Options.
Some interesting Attributes
The Badge > Label is badly named. Yes label in the HTML world means Tooltip and in this case it will show a Tooltip
The Universal Theme application shows &VALUE_DESCRIPTION. when this is not a column and is therefore ignored
When I change it to static text of LUFC
then it does show a tooltip of my static text
however its annoying that its only a prefix to the value and there is no native way of removing the value from the label. I.e I wanted it to say
LUFCand notLUFC 0.87%I can enable Display Label how
however all this displays the label both in the Badge and the Tooltip
The Label's help text says it supports Server-Side Template Directives
It looks as ugly as hell in the Text Item - but it does work!
Be careful of narrow widths though when using wide badged.
Is it a coincidence that Oracle's rival MSFT has a dip in its stock price in this test data? 😝
In Avatar > Icon you can using a substitution string, even though the Help Text does say its supported, to use different Avatar Icons per Metric
If its not documented, does this mean its unsupported? 🤔
Do you like the new Construction Icons in Font APEX 2.5?
In Badge > State you can only select a value of "danger", "warning", "success" or "info". It accepts lower and upper case variations. No others are supported. i.e hot, u-color-19, color-19, etc
If you click Badge > Display Badge and back on again, it will lose the previous settings.
It will then force you to select a Label - which is annoying as I don't have, want or need a label. In this case you can use a
In Summary - a welcome feature. some learning niggles here and there i.e labeling and putting all your Template Directives on one line. A bit of a limitation on the Badge > State colors.
Nethertheless what an ace feature to have.
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