Introducing the Latest Find and Replace Features
The "Find and Replace" feature in the code editor has existed for many years. Developers can easily and efficiently search and replace code, especiall...
April 27, 2023
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4D Write Pro – Find and Replace
For many years now, 4D Write Pro has made it possible to create simple or complex documents, either via programming using templates or by simply creat...
April 27, 2021
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4D View Pro: Find and replace with code
Sometimes when you initialize a 4D View Pro document, you need to find some values or tags in it and replace them with data issued from 4D. Now it's a...
January 25, 2021
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Placeholders for attribute paths in ORDA queries
The ORDA features keep coming with 4D v17 R5! In a previous blog post, we showed you how to create generic queries with named placeholders for values....
May 21, 2019
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4 different ways to find items in a collection
As a developer, you often need to know whether a specified item already exists in a collection, or to find all the items corresponding to particular c...
March 6, 2018
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Query collections
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and with over 40 methods in 4D v16 R6 to manage collections, things are getting much easier for you as a de...
March 1, 2018
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Find a specific attribute value in a single line of code!
Remember the days when you had to use nested loops and conditional statements to retrieve an object's attribute? So you ended up with a long and compl...
February 27, 2018
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Export results of “Find in design” dialog
When you search for all objects in the Design Environment, 4D displays the results in the hierarchical list. From 4D v16 R3, you can export these resu...
April 25, 2017
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Search by linking array attribute query arguments
Object fields, introduced with 4D v15, allows to store and index unstructured data. This could be a common set of data, like first name, last name, bi...
February 16, 2017
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