Find the right spot in your 4D Write Pro document with AI
In 4D applications, large documents are commonplace: financial reports, internal guidelines, technical manuals… Searching for an exact keyword often isn’t enough. Scrolling through 30-page reports to find one paragraph is not only time-consuming but also error-prone. This is where AI can help.
The semantic approach based on vectors, introduced in 4D 20 R10, already makes it possible to find a relevant 4D Write Pro document even when different wordings are used (for example, “insert image” vs. “add picture”).
But what happens when a document spans multiple pages and covers various subtopics? Even if the entire text can be converted into a single vector, results are often better when we work at a finer scale. This is the idea behind chunking: splitting a document into coherent segments, each represented by its own vector.
This is precisely what allows us to go further: retrieving not only the right document, but also the exact passage that matches the search.
Intelligent 4D Write Pro document analysis with AI
In many business applications, users enter or receive unstructured text: customer feedback, internal notes, support tickets, reports, and more. This content represents valuable information, but it’s difficult to leverage without specific processing.
This is where artificial intelligence becomes a powerful tool: by automatically analyzing the written content of a 4D Write Pro document, it can extract useful metadata for understanding, sorting, or prioritizing.
In this demonstration, we’ve implemented a complete scenario of automatic analysis of 4D Write Pro documents using AI. From a simple text, the AI is capable of:
- Generating a concise title reflecting the content
- Identifying the tone (positive, negative, informative, urgent…)
- Suggesting classification tags
- Evaluating the document’s writing quality
The goal is clear: automatically enrich documents with usable metadata, without changing the user experience.
AI Brings Magical Search to 4D Write Pro Documents
In many 4D business applications, documents are everything — technical notes, reports, manuals, internal guides. But when users can’t remember the exact wording, finding the right one becomes slow, frustrating, or worse — impossible.
With 4D 20 R10, semantic search powered by AI vectors changes that. Instead of matching keywords, you match meaning. Users get the right document, even if they search in different words or a different language. It’s a smarter way to surface the knowledge hidden in your documents — fast, accurate, and built for how people actually search.
Let’s consider a concrete example: a user wants to locate a technical note that explains how to insert an image into a 4D Write Pro document. However, they may not recall the precise phrase used in the document.
Smarter Copy-Paste to Protect Your Data
You work across environments — test, production, staging — and you copy more than text. Sometimes it’s formulas. Sometimes it’s data that shouldn’t move as freely as your cursor does. With 4D 20 R10, paste behavior gets smarter.
Formulas copied within the same app stay intact. But across environments, only values are pasted — never the underlying logic.
Discover your AI-powered writing assistant in 4D Write Pro
In a world where professional writing is constantly evolving, 4D Write Pro is here to revolutionize the way you write. With the integration of an AI-powered writing assistant, you now have instant support to draft, edit, and enhance your documents.
Our AI-powered writing assistant is much more than just a conversation tool. It is designed to be your personal assistant in document writing. Whether you need to rephrase a sentence, correct an error, or simply find inspiration, it is there to assist you in real time.
Creating Dynamic Documents with 4D Write Pro in Qodly application
In a professional environment where document management and production are crucial, having powerful and flexible tools is essential. Imagine being able to design dynamic document templates directly from your Desktop client, integrating formulas and data from your database, and then generating these documents with a single click through an intuitive web interface. That’s precisely what 4D Write Pro and 4D Qodly Pro allow you to do!
In this week’s blog, we’ll explore how these two solutions complement each other perfectly to automate and optimize your document processes. You’ll discover how to create custom templates in 4D Write Pro and how, thanks to 4D Qodly Pro, web users can enter the necessary data, trigger document generation, and even choose to store them in the database or return them via a calculated attribute.
To demonstrate this process, we’ll use the Performance Review application, which is available for download. Get ready to transform how you create and manage your documents while simplifying your workflows and boosting efficiency.
4D Write Pro – Sign and secure documents
The purpose of this article is to show how, in an easy-to-implement way, you can sign and verify documents transparently.
The obvious benefit of this approach is peace of mind when the documents are opened again, safe in the knowledge that they have not been modified in the meantime.
This is especially important if you store 4D Write Pro documents as smart templates containing 4D code as external files on disk. Before executing this code you want to ensure the file was not externally modified.
Or, in the case of external documents, to be certain that they have come from the right sender and have not been altered during their digital journey.
The principle we’re about to describe applies to 4D Write Pro documents but applies to any other type of document with a few minor modifications.
4D Write Pro commands optimized again!
As each new version is released, we take into account the feedback we receive from our customers on the general use of 4D Write Pro and its commands. While remaining 100% compatible, some commands and language functions are evolving!
Some commands, whose syntax have been improved in 4D 20 R8, now allow the use of modern parameters such as objects or collections. Others are now functions, making them easier to use. Finally, a number of new functions have been created. All this will make your code simpler, more generic and easier to maintain!
4D Write Pro: Mastering Sections and Subsections with new functions!
Sections and subsections are the building blocks of any well-structured document. You’ve likely used them countless times, perhaps without even realizing it, as every document contains at least one section by default!
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this post will walk you through the basics of sections and subsections.
We’ll also explore the exciting new 4D Write Pro features in 4D 20 R7, which make managing these elements easier and more powerful than ever.
4D Write Pro: Make Hidden Table Borders Visible (Temporarily)
Working on 4D Write Pro tables with hidden lines can be tricky! You can’t tell where each cell ends, especially with merged ones. But 4D 20 R7 is shipped with a cool feature to show you those hidden lines, even if they’re normally invisible.
This makes working with tables much easier! Let’s see how this new view property works.
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