Roland Lannuzel

• Product Owner & 4D Expert • After studying electronics, Roland went into industrial IT as a developer and consultant, building solutions for customers with a variety of databases and technologies. In the late 80’s he fell in love with 4D and has used it in writing business applications that include accounting, billing and email systems.Eventually joining the company in 1997, Roland’s valuable contributions include designing specifications, testing tools, demos as well as training and speaking to the 4D community at many conferences. He continues to actively shape the future of 4D by defining new features and database development tools.

ORDA – Say Hello to Aliases

4D v19 R4 is shipped with a new ORDA concept: Aliases. They are the logical and complementary continuation of computed attributes. This blog post exp...

Roland Lannuzel

January 12, 2022 1 min read

Alias Data model ORDA

4D Write Pro: Where are my formulas?

When a 4D Write Pro document contains external elements resulting from expressions or formulas, they are visible when the "Display expressions" mode i...

Roland Lannuzel

October 8, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula Word processor

Export 4D Write Pro documents to SVG format

4D Write Pro documents can be exported into different formats: PDF, Plain text, Microsoft Word, 4D Write Pro, HTML... To this list is now added the SV...

Roland Lannuzel

October 7, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Export SVG Word processor

Need a magic wand? Here are computed class properties!

The apparition of classes in the 4D development environment has made programming more modern and easier to scale. Classes allow the definition of prop...

Roland Lannuzel

October 5, 2021 1 min read

Class Computed attribute

A magic show awaits you with ORDA’s computed attributes!

It is often helpful or even essential that databases be adapted in a flexible and evolving way to users and their businesses in the computer world. Th...

Roland Lannuzel

October 5, 2021 1 min read

Computed attribute ORDA

4D Write Pro – Continuous Section Breaks

Starting with 4D v19 R3, 4D Write Pro supports continuous section breaks. A continuous section break creates a section in its own right but without c...

Roland Lannuzel

October 4, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Document creation Section break Word processor

4D Write Pro – New image formats

Starting with 4D v19 R2, inline as well as anchored images inside 4D Write Pro documents will benefit from new formatting types. We've also made it m...

Roland Lannuzel

July 19, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Pictures Word processor

4D Write Pro – Find and Replace

For many years now, 4D Write Pro has made it possible to create simple or complex documents, either via programming using templates or by simply creat...

Roland Lannuzel

April 27, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Find Word processor

From docx format to 4D Write Pro!

A couple of months ago, we were happy to announce the ability to export 4D Write Pro documents to Microsoft Word.docx format. Now we're thrilled to an...

Roland Lannuzel

April 26, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Import Word processor