How to Set Up Your First Oracle APEX Workspace - A Step-by-Step Guide

This post will guide you through the process of quickly setting up your first Oracle APEX Workspace. 

Contents:

• Step 1: Visit the Oracle APEX Homepage
• Step 2: Choose Your APEX Workspace Plan
• Step 3: Fill Out the Workspace Request Form
• Step 4: Submit & Verify the Workspace Request

Step 1: Visit the Oracle APEX Homepage

Navigate to the Oracle APEX's home page. Here, you'd be able to see all the product related information here along with several tutorials and helpful documentations. Click the "Start for Free Today" button (highlighted in the image below)

Figure 1: Oracle APEX - Home Page

Step 2: Choose Your APEX Workspace Plan

This will take us to the "Getting Started" page of Oracle APEX. Over here, we need to choose the "Plan" that would suit us the most. As a learner/explorer, "Free APEX Workspace" is more suitable and is more than enough to get us started with Oracle APEX. To choose that, we need to click the "Free Sign Up" button that is highlighted in the below image. 

Figure 2: Oracle APEX - Workspace Plan

Step 3: Fill Out the Workspace Request Form

By following the above steps, we'll be redirected to the below form - "Request Workspace - Form".

Figure 3: Oracle APEX - Workspace Registration Form

Over here, we would be asked to fill in some mandatory details before Oracle sets up a Free cloud workspace for us. This includes 

• First Name - Provide your first name (E.g. John from "John Doe")
• Last Name - Provide your last name (E.g. Doe from "John Doe")
• Email - Provide your valid email address for which you have access to. The workspace setup link will be sent to this mail address  (E.g. johndoe@gmail.com)
• Workspace Name - This is the unique name that would be needed to identify our workspace among millions of other free Oracle cloud workspaces (E.g. JOHN_DOE_CODES)
• Location - The country where we reside in - (E.g. Finland)

Along with these fields, we would be asked to choose values for 2 radio-button field questions that are self-explanatory.

1. Are you new to Oracle APEX?
2. Do you plan to use APEX for education or training?

Finally, we would have to accept the terms and conditions by checking in the "I agree to the terms of the Oracle APEX Service Agreement". Once all the fields are filled, click on "Register Workspace" button. If all the required fields are not filled, relevant error messages will be displayed near the fields (as shown in the image below)

Figure 4: Oracle APEX - Registration Form : Validations

Step 4: Submit the Workspace Request

 

Now, upon clicking the "Request Workspace" button, a confirmation modal-form appears based on the information provided by us for verification. If all the information provided are valid, we would be clicking the "Submit Request" button.  

Figure 5: Oracle APEX - Workspace Registration Confirmation

Upon successful request, the following success message will be displayed.

Figure 6: Oracle APEX - Successful Workspace Request

Now, within few minutes, we will receive a mail that would look similar to the one that I've received. This will be done to validate our email address and once we click on "Create Workspace" button, a workspace will be created for us.

Figure 7: Oracle APEX - Workspace Request Verification via Mail

Upon redirection, we will be asked to set up a password. Once the password is set, we would be logged into the system and your UI should look like the one below.

Figure 8: Oracle APEX - Workspace Home Page

With these steps completed, your Oracle APEX account setup is now successfully finished, and you're ready to explore the powerful capabilities of Oracle APEX. Whether you're building simple web applications or complex enterprise systems, Oracle APEX provides a rich, intuitive platform to bring your ideas to life with minimal coding effort.

From here, the real adventure begins! As you dive deeper into APEX, you'll discover how its vast range of features—like declarative development, data visualization, interactive reports, and responsive design—can accelerate your development process. Explore APEX’s tight integration with SQL and PL/SQL, its strong community support, and the ever-growing ecosystem of plugins and tools.

Now, it’s time to start creating applications that truly transform the way your data is managed, analyzed, and presented. Get ready for an exciting journey with Oracle APEX! :)