Year in Review: Top Five Features From 2022
2022 has had four product releases loaded with the many features you requested.
While it was challenging to pick only 5 features from the ever-growing list of functionalities, we have collated this list of the top features of 2022 based on the positive feedback we’ve received.
These Are Our Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022
2022 has it all!
From 4D Write Pro and its list of capabilities that make it an advanced template-based documents generator to 4D View Pro, which has proven to be more than a spreadsheet solution to a whole new ORDA, programming, and 4D for Mobile features.
And before stepping into the bright horizon of possibilities that 2023 has to offer, let’s take a look at the most viewed posts of 2022 🔥
Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – November 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 17 tips:
Use 4D Write Pro to Create & Print a Batch of Documents
Whatever your business, you must create listings, inventories, tracking sheets, product sheets, invoices, and many other documents. These documents are usually printed or saved in PDF for archiving.
4D Write Pro is the ideal tool to create all your documents. Here is a list of several features available in 4D Write Pro that can help you make beautiful documents for printing:
- page layout and margin management for printing,
- pdf export,
- document protection,
- table creation,
- table formatting with repeated headers,
- definition of a data context,
- inserting ORDA formulas in a table (new in 4D v19 R6).
Using these different features, here are some examples of documents produced.
4D for Mobile: Say Hello to Aliases
As you probably know, aliases have been available since 4D v19 R4. Aliases and computed attributes were a massive step forward for our development framework!
The days of defining business-related formulas in your 4D user interface are over; these concepts offer you a new way to separate your business logic from the UI, enabling you to improve performance by optimizing the parts separately.
And now, with 4D v19 R6, aliases are fully available and ready to use for scalars in your iOS and Android mobile projects as soon your aliases are defined on the 4D side.
Developing Concurrently on 4D Server in Project Mode
Since its release in 4D v18, Projects drastically expanded 4D’s capabilities by bringing compatibility with version control systems —among other things.
With excellent feedback, we couldn’t be prouder to see significant adoption of this feature among the 4D community. This pushed us to improve it to make it even better.
Your feedback included a request for the possibility to work simultaneously on a single development server as a team. Again, 4D listened, and we are thrilled to announce that with 4D v19 R6, you can work on a development server in project mode!
4D Write Pro: Dynamically Fill Tables with Entity Selections & Collections
As developers, we often create complex and advanced 4D Write Pro documents. We may generate tables that need to be filled from a data source, and we may not be sure of the exact rows and columns. Manually filling the tables with data every time is a laborious task. We heard you, and here is where data context comes as an invaluable option, opening the world of ORDA and object-oriented development to 4D Write Pro documents.
It is now possible to define a “datasource” for the tables of 4D Write Pro. Whether it is an entity selection or a collection, this “datasource” will automatically feed the rows of these tables.
Let’s delve into the details!
4D v19 R6 Beta Starts today
We are pleased to announce the launch of beta testing for 4D v19 R6! This release is loaded with enhancements and new features that you won’t want to miss!
Let’s take a look and discover what’s new in the 4D v19 R6 Beta:
- Horizontal and vertical padding for list boxes — so your interface can have an even more professional look.
- Developing concurrently on 4D Server in Project Mode — so you can adopt Project Mode without impacting your organization if you still work with binary mode.
- Define a “datasource” for the tables of 4D Write Pro — so the end-users of your application can design or modify templates that will be filled automatically with data.
- Native support for Microsoft 365 — so you can support Single Sign-On, and retrieve information for the authenticated user, to name a few possibilities.
- 4D for Mobile aliases — so you can retrieve values at several degrees of depth and display even more relevant information in your mobile app.
- Much more awaits you!
4D v19 R5 is Here
We’re pleased to announce that 4D v19 R5 is now available!
Besides the monthly Hot Fixes, here’s an overview of what this feature release has in store for you:
Download 4D v19 R5 (monthly Hot Fixes available)
- Enhanced printing capabilities and templates are just a glimpse of the 20+ new 4D View Pro features that await you.
- 4D Write Pro is now more capable than ever. Featuring table headers and linked paragraphs. Plus, contexts to simplify access to data and open the world of ORDA and object-oriented development to 4D Write Pro templates.
- As for the 4D language, we implemented one of the most voted features on the forum. You asked us for a lighter way to handle parameters, and we listened. Say hello to the Copy parameters command.
Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – June Edition
by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc
Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.
As you know, 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about the 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly technotes 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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