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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For Admins
Operate, deploy, and maintain 4D environments with control and predictability.
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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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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Pause logging and log configuration file
For 4D v19, we started a long-term refinement of our logs. Our first effort was to improve their format to give you better and clearer information. As...
October 7, 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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