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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For Admins
Operate, deploy, and maintain 4D environments with control and predictability.
Evolution of the diagnostic log
Year after year, feature after feature, the diagnostic log has grown into a massive file on busy servers. With 4D v19R5, we included a new database pa...
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 Seamless Way to Manage Parameters
In the declaration of a function or method, you explicitly define its parameters. Then, when calling that function or method, you can pass fewer param...
April 25, 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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Use duplicated merged client applications
As a publisher, you sometimes want to duplicate a merged client application to connect each of them to their dedicated 4D Server. Let's see how to do ...
January 12, 2022
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Opening the Runtime Explorer
The Runtime Explorer is accessible to users belonging to the group having access to Design mode. Let’s see how to use it another way. ...
October 18, 2021
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Debug on the server with scalable web sessions
Scalable web sessions were a significant improvement brought by 4D v18 R6. They allow you to use 4D tags, 4D actions, and REST API in preemptive proce...
October 11, 2021
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