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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Icon modernization continues
While icons may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of design, they actually play a crucial role in improving human-software interactions by offeri...
February 21, 2018
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Calculations in collections
Calculate average, total or price (including tax) are common tasks in any business application. Collections are an easy way to aggregate your data in ...
February 19, 2018
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Easy access to log files
Log files can be extremely useful for troubleshooting. They're also a big help for finding the root cause of an incident. Logs let us track of where a...
February 15, 2018
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Backup and Security
There's a saying about not sweating the small stuff, but when it comes to security, it’s often the little things that have the biggest impact. On t...
February 13, 2018
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Combine and sort collections
4D v16 R6 opens a wide range of possibilities to manage collections. Merging two collections into one, cloning or just ordering a collection is as eas...
February 12, 2018
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Autocomplete function expanded to object attributes
Object notation opens new possibilities! To help you adopt this way of coding, we have improved the autocomplete mechanism of the method editor. Whene...
February 7, 2018
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Convert collections
4D v16 R6 provides advanced capabilities to manipulate collections, thanks to 40+ methods to be used with Object Notation. By using them, you'll be ab...
February 6, 2018
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