ORDA – Say Goodbye to Empty Spaces in Your Entity Selections
We've all been there. You build a beautiful interface that displays an entity selection for users. They can drop entities to refine their choices, but...
July 18, 2024
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Entity selection
4D keeps your selections of records consistent regarding deletion of records
Deletion of data should be handled with care. To prevent issues, we can use transactions or rely on backups and logs. Some improvements have been mad...
February 27, 2024
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Meet the Improved Distinct Function
Retrieving the list of unique data elements is always helpful when manipulating data. In some cases, retrieving the number of occurrences of each valu...
April 26, 2023
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Automatic Row Heights in Collection Based List Boxes
List boxes are the most versatile and customizable form objects. Automatic row heights were already possible for array-based list boxes. With the arri...
January 15, 2023
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New Tips & Tricks for your 4D Applications
by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc As you know, 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about the 4D...
May 16, 2022
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ORDA and 4D Write Pro : The power couple!
4D Write Pro documents often contain formulas returning data or calculations depending on the database. Thanks to the use of contexts, associating tha...
April 27, 2022
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Sharing leads to performance
Following this blog post about the new concept of shareable entity selections and the subsequent discussions on the forum, we'll now take the time to ...
December 17, 2020
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ORDA – Better list box row selecting
You've probably used the LISTBOX SELECT ROW command many times, looping through each entity in order to select the rows for an entity selection. 4D v...
May 11, 2020
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ORDA: Breaking news for entity selection methods
When it comes to ORDA, 4D v18 R3 is full of good news! New member methods are at your disposal to further enhance your coding experience. For starter...
May 5, 2020
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