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Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – November 2023 Edition

by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc

 

Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.

The 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly tech notes are actively published. If you missed the last tips on the KB, that’s fine; here is a compilation from the past few weeks.

This blog post covers 16 tips:

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Qodly Studio for 4D / What’s new with 4D v20 R3

You already know it, 4D revealed Qodly Studio for 4D early september this year. Introduced in 4D v20 R2, Qodly Studio benefits from the Feature Release lifecycle and gets its load of improvements and fixes with 4D v20 R3, currently in beta.

Wondering what’s new in Qodly Studio in this new 4D release? Read what’s next to get ready to use the latest Qodly features in your web app!

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Boost 4D with OpenAI!

Artificial Intelligence rapidly disrupts our daily lives, not only as developers. Most of you, if not all, have already heard about ChatGPT from OpenAI. This post is about a proof-of-concept made with Qodly Studio, in a practical use case: how to use AI to generate credible and realistic datasets for your apps. In other words: how to quickly fill your app with data for you to test it, or to demonstrate it. Get ready!

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Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – October 2023 Edition

by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc

 

Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.

The 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly tech notes are actively published. If you missed the last tips on the KB, that’s fine; here is a compilation from the past few weeks.

This blog post covers 19 tips:

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Microsoft 365: Update Mail Properties

Your feedback matters, and we’ve been listening!

Many of you have been eager for a command to update the ‘isRead’ flag in emails. Starting with 4D v20 R3, 4D Netkit has incorporated this highly requested feature. Now, you can effortlessly update various properties of received or drafted emails using the new ‘Office365.mail.update()‘ function.

Keep reading for more details.

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A Fresh Approach to Writing Variadic Functions

Many of you are familiar with using methods or functions that can accept an unspecified number of parameters, often referred to as variadic functions.

In our ongoing process to improve your development experience, 4D v20 R3 streamlined the declaration of these methods by introducing ellipsis, making your code more straightforward and easier to work with.