Tips
Roland Lannuzel

ORDA – Genealogy – Episode three

In the first  and second episodes of this trilogy, we demonstrated the basics of ORDA using list boxes, entities, and entity selections. We also showed the way to use similar list boxes with distinct data sources and how to use Meta info expression to improve the list boxes’ graphics.

Today we’re going to have even more fun, with less code!

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Tips
Roland Lannuzel

ORDA – Genealogy – Episode two

In the first episode of this trilogy, we demonstrated the basics of ORDA using list boxes, entities, and entity selections. Today, we’re going a bit deeper by running some queries that will take advantage of recursive relationships. We’ll also have a quick look at how to display list boxes nicely using the “meta info expression” property.

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Tips
Roland Lannuzel

ORDA – Genealogy – Episode one

We can all agree that ORDA is a great 4D V17 feature. A kind of revolution in the way of thinking and programming. 4D databases will never be seen the same way as before.

ORDA allows you to conceive advanced applications in less time, with more readable and clean code. To show you the power of ORDA we’ve prepared a series of tips for you, divided into three episodes. In this first episode, we’ll demonstrate how links should now be considered more as entities and entity collections, and we’ll show you how listboxes can now be based on entity selections, rather than selections or arrays.

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Enter a new dimension with 4D v17 and ORDA – Thomas Maul & LR from the 4D Summit 2018

Object Relational Data Access, or simply ORDA, is the biggest feature set we’ve ever had … in more than 30 years. And the biggest announcement of the 4D Summit 2018.

Watch the video of the ORDA announcement during the 4D Summit 2018 Keynote. It features Thomas Maul, VP of Product Strategy, introducing this progressive technology and explaining how using your database as an object can open a whole new world of possibilities for your 4D-based applications.

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Product
Vanessa Talbot

Display an entity selection in a list box

4D v17 introduces a new concept: ORDA. If you’re not familiar with ORDA yet, we’ve created a series of blog posts to explain how to use and take advantage of ORDA. When working with ORDA, you’re going to use entity selections, which are basically objects containing references to entities belonging to the same dataclass (i.e. table). One of the main benefits of ORDA, is the very simple and powerful ability of binding with forms.

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to display an entity selection in a list box. In fact, it’s very simple.

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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.

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