Flash Charts - XML Loading Failed

Has this ever happen to you....

You tested your application, that includes a simple 2D flash chart, throughly in the development environment, then you had your customer test it out as well fixing issues as they come up. When the testing is completed, you put it in the production environment. Everything should work the same. Right????

Well, not necesarily in the real world!! In this case, the system had a flash chart on the first page. I was getting a XML Loading Failed error when using IE8 but did not get the message while using Firefox 3.6. Since IE is about 60% of the market, the issue had to be resolved!!!

After creating an SR with Oracle Support, I found out it it was related to the reverse proxy server at my office. The reverse proxy server allows the public access to the specified server only. Well, the reverse proxy server has several different settings (I do not know what they are since it was configured by another technical group.). The group had to change the settings to allow Flash charts to be displayed.

This issue is described in My Oracle Support Note: 429364.1 Create Flash Chart Region Process Errors With Xml Loading Failed Error Message..

Tabular Form - Aligning at the Top!

I recently created a manual tabular form that consisted of both text as well as textarea items. It seems that, by default, the items are vertically center aligned.


In order to align all items at the top border, you have to use CSS. You need to identify the class of the table and change the style to align at the top. For example, you would put the following in your page's HTML Header section:

<style>
.t15standard td{vertical-align:top}
</style>

Now the same form looks like this: