4D 20 R6 Beta Starts Today
Beta testing for 4D 20 R6 starts today, and we’re excited to unveil a release packed with powerful features designed specifically for developers!
- Programmers can now benefit from direct function calls via singletons through REST APIs and Qodly Pages events, customizable HTTP agents, improved session storage access, and more.
- Keep your entity selections neat with ORDA’s new clean function that removes empty spaces after deletions, ensuring a well-organized interface.
- Force Login becomes the default for all REST Authentication, improving resource management and providing precise control over access to your data and functions.
- The code editor comes with new features to help developers focus on critical issues by customizing which warnings are displayed globally.
- In 4D Write Pro, manage empty data sources in tables, hide, show placeholders, and more.
- And that’s not all — There are more features to explore!
4D 20 R5 is Here
Introducing 4D 20 R5 – Available Now!
Here’s a sneak peek of what awaits you with this feature release:
Download 4D 20 R5 (monthly Hot Fixes available)
- QUIC: Enhance application performance and security with the production-ready QUIC, which offers IPv6 support, broadcast capabilities, and Windows single sign-on.
- User Interface: Transform your application’s appearance with two new window types that allow complete customization of the window title bar. Add buttons, search boxes, and other elements to create your design.
- 4D Write Pro: Create professional-looking documents with enhanced layout design, easy section break management, quick formatting options, and support for larger tables.
- 4D Language: Write cleaner and more robust code with Try-Catch blocks for precise error handling, shared classes for simplified object management, and singletons for improved global accessibility.
- ORDA: Implement strong data security by restricting user access to specific data based on predefined criteria, ensuring users only see relevant information.
- Visual Studio Code extension: Boost developer productivity with GitHub Codespaces integration and workspace syntax checking.
- Qodly Studio for 4D brings Custom Components for greater flexibility, new dialog features for better user interactions, Force Login for optimized license use, and more.
Easily Using Qodly’s REST API
A few months ago, we announced that Qodly Studio is now available to all our Silver Partners (and higher).
Qodly Studio for 4D is fully integrated into 4D, allowing 4D Server to host your application with both desktop and web pages.
Qodly Studio is also accessible on Qodly, as part of 4D’s newly launched SaaS offering. This innovative hybrid low-code solution is specifically designed for web browser-based business applications.
Even if you’ve already built apps using the Qodly platform, we have more good news! You can now with 4D 20 R5 utilize the REST API of a Qodly application to seamlessly work with your data.
Keep reading to learn more.
When Qodly.com Meets 4D Server, What Are They Talking About?
Last September, 4D unveiled Qodly Studio for 4D, offering comprehensive benefits that enable you to seamlessly create dynamic, efficient business web applications. If you haven’t yet, check out this blog post to learn how to get started with Qodly Studio for 4D.
Qodly Studio is also accessible on qodly.com, forming a part of 4D’s new SaaS offering.
Excitingly, the synergy between Qodly.com and 4D applications reaches new heights with the introduction of the QodlyScript openDatastore command. This feature enables qodly.com web applications to seamlessly connect with 4D applications deployed on 4D Servers, facilitating the utilization of 4D projects as remote datastores. So, if you’re eager to harness the power of your 4D application data and business logic within a qodly.com environment, you’ll be delighted to learn about the possibilities offered by Qodly Studio’s latest advancements.
Now, picture this scenario: your existing 4D Server-based application serves both desktop and web clients using Qodly forms. If this setup mirrors your current approach, feel free to skip ahead.
But if you want to extend your existing 4D server-based application with a totally new one, only web-based – and this one hosted on Qodly.com then this post is for you and shows how to communicate between both.
Improved 4D Client Licenses Usage with Qodly Studio for 4D
Those of you who have started using Qodly Studio for 4D already know how powerful this new tool is for developing business web applications. If you haven’t yet, find here more information on getting started.
Apps made with Qodly Studio for 4D rely on the REST APIs. 4D 20 R5 is shipped with a great new feature: “Force Login” mode.
With Force Login mode, a 4D Client license is only consumed when users successfully log in and begin working with your application’s data and logic.
Keep reading to find out more! And don’t forget to download our demo to see it in action!
Qodly Studio for 4D: What’s new in 4D 20 R4
Qodly Studio for 4D presents an intuitive solution for crafting web applications with minimal coding effort.
Seamlessly integrated with 4D Server, you can easily leverage existing business logic developed for desktop applications.
Curious about what’s new in Qodly Studio for 4D 20 R4 with the latest 4D release? Keep reading to find out about the cool new features for your web application.
Qodly Studio for 4D: Switch from DataTable to Matrix to Add Actions
This blog post extends Ayoub’s ‘Datatable & CRUD operations’ session, focusing on Qodly Studio’s Matrix component.
Serving as a dynamic UI element, Matrix efficiently displays a variety of Stylebox components, finding applications in Product Galleries, News Feeds, and User Profile Showcases.
ORDA: Assigning a path to a blob or picture attribute
Non-ORDA database commands allowed you to put images and blobs outside your data file thanks to the SET EXTERNAL DATA PATH command. This command is not adapted for ORDA, so we have decided to add similar functionality in v20 R3: The ability to assign to a blob or picture attribute a path pointing to a file. Let me tell you more about it.
Year in Review: Top Five Features From 2023
2023 has had four product releases loaded with the many features you requested.
Despite the difficulty of packing many impressive features into just five selections, we’ve compiled a list of the most notable features in 2023 based on user engagement:
Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – December 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 12 tips:
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