Last October, we announced Qodly Studio for 4D, which entered Beta after a year of Developer Preview , together with 4D 20 R6.

Well, we are pleased to announce that this Beta period with 4D 20 R8 is over! There is no better moment to unveil 4D Qodly Pro as the final product name to designate this wonderfully new way of building and running business web applications with 4D.

What is 4D Qodly Pro?

4D Qodly Pro puts Qodly technology deep inside 4D, in line with products you are already familiar with, like 4D Write Pro or 4D View Pro.

• Of course, 4D Qodly Pro offers you a powerful high-end studio, named Qodly Studio for 4D, which is your main place to design all your Qodly Pages. But Qodly technology is far from being only a powerful studio.
• Qodly Sources bring your 4D data to Qodly Pages and their UI components without the hassle of writing a single line of code. They are powered by the ORDA REST API: browse your catalog in Qodly Studio for 4D, declare a Qodly Source mapped to a table of yours as an Entity Selection, and just drop it on a datatable. Press render, and your data appears live in your web browser.
• Qodly Renderer gives life to your Qodly App. It transparently resides in your web browser and is the real bandmaster of your app by transforming Qodly Pages JSON into HTML and ReactJS. Later on, it drives all interactions between your end-users and your 4D server by sending REST queries, fetching their results, and handling all user events you define.
• Look ahead with confidence: Qodly custom components enable you to create any UI component that may not yet be available in Qodly Studio. Start your project now, knowing you’ll have the flexibility to adapt and grow without limitations — or pick one of the numerous already available ready-to-use custom components.

 

4D Qodly Pro is fully included in 4D and 4D Server. Nothing additional to install or deploy — neither for developers nor for your users. Just use it! No need to purchase new licenses:

• Development is included in your 4D Partner contract (Silver or higher).
• Deployment or production usage makes use of your usual 4D Client licenses. License concept is the same whether you use desktop or browser to access your application.

 

Benefits for you and your users

Deliver updates quicker than ever: your users have nothing to install — they just use their web browser. Qodly Renderer will always retrieve the latest available version of each Qodly Page you deployed on your 4D Server.

Modern web UIs are more and more desired by your users. Sooner or later, you will have to provide at least a couple of web features. But you may not be so familiar with a web stack and you don’t know how to proceed. Will you choose a good web stack? Will it be hard to implement and maintain? Will it still exist in a few years? Will you need more skills and hire new staff?

Save your time: 4D Qodly Pro allows you to deliver elaborated web features right now without starting all over again, with a short learning curve.

Choose your speed: your Qodly Pages live together with your client/server app. Transition at your own speed. Why not start by bringing new features with Qodly Pages and keep your existing 4D app as it is? No problem with 4D Qodly Pro. Both ways of using your 4D app can perfectly run in parallel.

Ready to start?

4D Qodly Pro beta will end with 4D 20 R8 beta. It is now ready for production and supported just like the rest of 4D.

In the next few days, we’ll inform you on this blog about the latest features, and we’ll also share a series of posts and tutorials describing an interesting use case involving 4D Write Pro. Stay tuned!

You’re already a lot of developers happily using 4D Qodly Pro — and this makes us proud of it.

And if you do not know where to start, here is a list of blog posts, videos, and tutorials!

• Your doc starting point is here in developer.4d.com
• Qodly Studio features are documented in developer.qodly.com
• Check out Marie Sophie’s demo session from the 4D 20 R6 release webinar:

 

 

Here below, a selection of blog posts of interest:

• Get started with Qodly Studio
• Qodly Studio in action – 3 demos
• Masterclass: run your 4D app in a web browser
• Your first steps with Qodly Studio
• New demo with Qodly Studio
• All about datatable CRUD operations
• Switch from datatable to matrix to add actions
• Improved client license usage
• Qodly.com meets 4D Server
• How to add custom components
• Dynamic UIs with page states

 

And have a look at the Qodly YouTube channel, showcasing a lot of Qodly Studio features.

As a final word, 4D Qodly Pro continues to evolve. We’re eager to hear which features you would like to see next in the product!