QODLY STUDIO FOR 4D: WHAT’S NEW IN 4D 20 R6
With each release, Qodly Studio for 4D becomes a more powerful platform, a robust and user-friendly solution for building business web applications with minimal coding effort.
Integrated within 4D, Qodly Studio for 4D allows you to leverage existing business logic developed for desktop applications.
Qodly Studio for 4D 20 R6 introduces a host of intuitive features, making it easier than ever to bring your vision to life.
Let’s dive into the details!
QODLY STUDIO FOR 4D: WHAT’S NEW IN 4D 20 R5
In our previous posts, we introduced you to Qodly Studio for 4D and hope you have begun exploring its features. With each release, Qodly Studio for 4D becomes an increasingly robust and user-friendly solution for building business web applications with minimal coding effort.
Integrated deeply with 4D, Qodly Studio for 4D allows you to leverage existing business logic developed for desktop applications.
Let’s dive into the exciting new features of Qodly Studio for 4D 20 R5 and how you can integrate them into your applications.
Permissions: Inspect Session Privileges for Easy Debugging
Today, you can benefit from a powerful feature to filter access to data, which is essential for preventing malicious access to your application.
This feature uses privileges that allow certain actions on your data. These privileges are assigned to users through roles and stored in the Session during authentication.
In 4D 20 R6, we enhanced this functionality by allowing you to inspect the privileges in the Session, which is very helpful for debugging.
Keep reading to learn more.
ORDA – Say Goodbye to Empty Spaces in Your Entity Selections
We’ve all been there. You build a beautiful interface that displays an entity selection for users. They can drop entities to refine their choices, but then… those empty spaces appear where the dropped entities used to be.
Rebuilding the entity selection after drops? No more! 4D 20 R6 introduces a handy feature that eliminates this pain point with just one line of code.
Keep reading to discover how this feature can keep your interface clean and your users happy.
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.
ORDA – Restrict Data to Relevant Criteria
In 4D 19 R8, we introduced a robust permission system, granting you granular control over user access to your data. This system protects your data depending on who accesses it and which data is accessed, ensuring data security by restricting unauthorized access.
But what if you wanted to further refine read access based on specific criteria?
That’s where 4D 20 R5 steps in. Restricting read data according to some criteria.
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!
4D keeps your selections of records consistent regarding deletion of records
Deletion of data should be handled with care. To prevent issues, we can use transactions or rely on backups and logs.
Some improvements have been made in 4D 20 R4 to make your selections of records stable and consistent regarding potential deletion of records in this selection.
Keep reading to learn how your 4D code will be so safe out of the box.
Qodly Studio in action with a new demo
In this previous blogpost, we provided some demos to help you starting with Qodly Studio.
As promised, we keep providing demos. Here is the latest PIQS (short for Play In Qodly Studio)
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