Build your Compiled Structure or Component with Build4D
With the introduction of the project mode, it's pretty easy to manipulate the components of your projects. In the last few feature releases, we have ...
December 13, 2022
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Deployment
Generate builds, manage signing and notarization, configure authentication modes, handle TLS certificates, apply security settings, and control environment specific deployment parameters.
Microsoft 365: Get user information from Azure
Many companies are using Microsoft 365 (former Office 365). Besides providing access to Office applications, Microsoft provides an Azure-based Active ...
July 18, 2022
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Reduce your 4D apps’ size with these new features
In our ongoing effort to improve the building of 4D applications, we've added a few functionalities to 4D v19R5 that you'll certainly find useful. Th...
April 28, 2022
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Directory file management in merged server projects
Projects introduced the new directory.json file containing users, groups and permissions. It allows authentication, restrictions, permissions on sever...
April 27, 2022
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Disabling explorers on merged servers
You may want to restrict administrators from accessing the Data Explorer and the Runtime Explorer in your deployed merged servers. 4D v19 R5 enables t...
April 26, 2022
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A Deeper Look into 4D Data Encryption
4D offers several great avenues for keeping your business application secured. One of these avenues is to secure the data itself using 4D's built-in e...
April 4, 2022
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How to notarize your merged 4D application (macOS 12 & Xcode 13)
Note: Update for macOS 12/Monterey and Xcode 13. For Xcode 12 and older, see this blog post. With Monterey (macOS 12), it's highly recommende...
March 28, 2022
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4D and Microsoft 365 access
In the 4D v18 R6, 4D introduced OAuth 2.0 authentication to access emails through IMAP, SMTP, or POP3 transporters. Starting with 4D v19 R3, 4D contin...
October 8, 2021
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Bcrypt support for passwords
Security is a fundamental topic for today's business solution systems. At 4D, we understand its importance; that's why we keep delivering features tha...
October 8, 2021
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Simplified cross-platform client/server application building on Windows
The release of Silicon Macs had a great impact on the way 4D compiles applications. Before v19, 4D was compiling only for Intel architecture, using th...
October 6, 2021
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