An enhanced UX with AJUI_Progressbar
Have you ever executed an action, nothing seemed to happen, and you didn't know if you should click again or continue waiting? There's no feedback pro...
September 23, 2019
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Programming + v17
An ORDA Cheat Sheet
Blog post by guest author Cannon Smith, a 4D developer from southern Alberta, Canada: The introduction of collections and entities has dramatica...
September 11, 2019
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AJUI_Tip: A tooltip engine for 4D
Have you ever been flooded by confirmation dialogs, alert boxes, and contextual help windows that make it nearly impossible to locate the form window ...
June 18, 2019
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ORDA – Genealogy – Episode Four (by request !)
In the first, second, and third episodes of this series, we demonstrated the power of ORDA and how simple it is to manage related persons with a singl...
October 1, 2018
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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 showe...
August 29, 2018
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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 d...
August 16, 2018
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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...
August 3, 2018
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Keep track of your formulas with this new command
Imagine you have a list of formulas containing table names and some fields ... then days later you decide to rename your tables. Now your formulas are...
June 12, 2018
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Times inside objects… (and everywhere else)
Objects are at it again, continuing to demonstrate their utility to ease your life as a developer. Using time (or duration) values inside of object...
June 1, 2018
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How to create a generic form with dynamic forms
Imagine that your database contains several tables of types or categories. These tables are very simple, often with only an identifier and a text fiel...
May 22, 2018
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