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Convert classic 4D forms to dynamic forms

Your forms may need to be changed depending on your customer or user needs. For example, the color black might be perfect for one user but not so much for another user (who sees blue as the ultimate perfection). Luckily, dynamic forms (introduced with 4D v16 R6) are here to help you handle your users’ preferences. But rewriting an existing form to a dynamic form could be a difficult task, and it’s not always easy to start with a blank page. Ideally, it’d be best to have a draft that can be modified and improved. With 4D v17 R3, it’s now possible to easily convert a classic 4D form (stored in .4DB file) to a dynamic form.

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Handle entities in an entity selection

FIRST RECORD, LAST RECORD, NEXT RECORD, PREVIOUS RECORD; does that ring any bells? I bet it does. You’ve already been using them to handle selections! ORDA provides useful and familiar methods to navigate through entities in an entity selection – and obviously, some perks!

For starters, you can handle several entity selections at the same time and navigate through them independently, whereas normally you can only manage a single ‘current selection’ per table. That’s precisely what we’re going to see in this blog post.