added changelog and version for v1.5

README.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such may not be 100% accurate to the r
 **Works best in modern browsers** [For more informations visit html2canvas](https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas)
 
 ##Changelog
+####1.5 - removed the save to item functionality / instead added a AJAX function which saves the resulting image to Database using custom PL/SQL code
+
 ####1.4 - Added options to pick a border color of your choice / fill the selector´s content with light transparent color (based on border color)
 
 ####1.3 - Added options to choose a filter of graphical DOM selector / Hide label of graphical DOM selector
@@ -27,8 +29,8 @@ The plugin settings are highly customizable and you can change:
 - **Selector Border Color** - Color of the DOM selector outline
 - **Selector Fill Content** - Whether the content of a selected area is filled with color or not. (30% darker than selector´s border color)
 - **JQuery Selector** - Enter the JQuery Selector that should be captured
-- **Open image in new tab (or save to Item)** - Choose whether the image should be opened in a new tab or saved as base64 png to an APEX item
-- **Item Picker** - Item which holds the base64 png image informations
+- **Open image in new tab (or save to DB)** - Choose whether the image should be opened in a new window or saved to DB using custom PL/SQL (for BLOBs)
+- **PLSQL Code** - PLSQL code which saves the image to database tables or collections
 - **Background color** - Canvas background color, if none is specified in DOM. Set undefined for transparent
 - **Width** - Width in pixels (default screen width)
 - **Height** - Height in pixels (default screen height)
@@ -41,8 +43,8 @@ The plugin settings are highly customizable and you can change:
 - As action choose "APEX Screen Capture".
 - Choose best fitting plugin attributes (help included)
 
-####Convert image to BLOB in PL/SQL
-If you choose to save the screenshot (data uri base64 png) to an APEX item you can use a PL/SQL function like this to convert it to BLOB:
+####Convert image to BLOB in PL/SQL / save to DB
+If you choose to save the screenshot (data uri base64 png) to DB you can use a PL/SQL function like this to convert it to BLOB:
 
 ```language-sql
 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION png2blob(i_clob IN CLOB) RETURN BLOB IS
@@ -60,6 +62,62 @@ BEGIN
 END png2blob;
 ```
 
+A sample code for the "PLSQL code" attribute of the plugin could look like this:
+
+```language-sql
+DECLARE
+  --
+  l_collection_name VARCHAR2(100);
+  l_clob            CLOB;
+  l_clob_base64     CLOB;
+  l_blob            BLOB;
+  l_filename        VARCHAR2(100);
+  l_mime_type       VARCHAR2(100);
+  --
+BEGIN
+  -- get defaults
+  l_collection_name := 'SCREEN_CAPTURE';
+  l_filename        := 'screenshot_' ||
+                       to_char(SYSDATE,
+                               'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') || '.png';
+  l_mime_type       := 'image/png';
+  -- get CLOB from APEX special collection
+  SELECT clob001
+    INTO l_clob
+    FROM apex_collections
+   WHERE collection_name = 'CLOB_CONTENT';
+  --
+  -- escape special chars (similar to png2blob function)
+  l_clob_base64 := REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(l_clob,
+                                                   chr(10),
+                                                   ''),
+                                           chr(13),
+                                           ''),
+                                   chr(9),
+                                   ''),
+                           'data:image/png;base64,',
+                           '');
+  -- convert base64 CLOB to BLOB (mimetype: image/png)
+  l_blob := apex_web_service.clobbase642blob(p_clob => l_clob_base64);
+  --
+  -- create own collection
+  -- check if exist
+  IF NOT
+      apex_collection.collection_exists(p_collection_name => l_collection_name) THEN
+    apex_collection.create_collection(l_collection_name);
+  END IF;
+  -- add collection member (only if BLOB not null)
+  IF dbms_lob.getlength(lob_loc => l_blob) IS NOT NULL THEN
+    apex_collection.add_member(p_collection_name => l_collection_name,
+                               p_c001            => l_filename, -- filename
+                               p_c002            => l_mime_type, -- mime_type
+                               p_d001            => SYSDATE, -- date created
+                               p_blob001         => l_blob); -- BLOB img content
+  END IF;
+  --
+END;
+```
+
 ####Excluding page areas from getting rendered
 If you would like to exclude some areas from getting rendered to the resulting image, just add
 
@@ -72,7 +130,7 @@ If you would like to exclude a complete region add the "data-html2canvas-ignore"
 
 
 ##Demo Application
-https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=57743:14
+https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=APEXPLUGIN
 
 ##Preview
 ![](https://github.com/Dani3lSun/apex-plugin-apexscreencapture/blob/master/preview.gif)

apexplugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name" : "APEX Screen Capture",
-  "version" : "1.4",
+  "version" : "1.5",
   "description" : "This plugin allows you to take screenshots/captures of pages or parts of it, directly on the users browser.",
   "keywords" : ["screenshot", "capture", "pages", "screen"],
   "homepage" : "https://github.com/Dani3lSun/apex-plugin-apexscreencapture",
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
       "plugin" : {
         "internalName" : "DE.DANIELH.APEXSCREENCAPTURE",
         "type" : "dynamic action",
-        "demo" : "https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=57743:14",
+        "demo" : "https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=APEXPLUGIN",
         "previewImage" : "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dani3lSun/apex-plugin-apexscreencapture/master/preview.gif"
       }
     }