Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – March 2025 Edition



Tips

by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc

Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.

The 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly tech notes are actively published. If you missed the last tips on the KB, that’s fine; here is a compilation from the past few weeks.

This blog post covers 15 tips:

      1. Can’t find form “ErrorRuntime”. 4D Resources are probably wrong.
      2. Updating Version of 4D Regularly if Possible
      3. Creating a Checkbox Without a Title in 4D (Table Form)
      4. Configuring IP Addresses for a 4D Web/Soap Server
      5. Compiler Warnings for Alphanumeric Expressions
      6. Identify active method properties in .4dm files
      7. Quickly check contents of project file with web browser
      8. Key Syntax Differences Between 4D View and 4D View Pro
      9. Using WP NEW with Valid HTML Content
      10. Using Bracket Notation for Remote Datastore Tables
      11. Managing large objects in 4D for optimal performance
      12. Changing the length of a CSR certificate
      13. Error -10537: Can’t open database because it is not using object notation
      14. Understanding qodlyApp.json and Default Routing Behavior
      15. Enable User Settings to Allow Modification of Built Application Settings
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Add Komoncharoensiri
Add Komoncharoensiri has been a key member of the technical support team since 2000. He started his career at the company as a technical support engineer before becoming a 4D evangelist in 2003, then internal applications manager in 2006, and finally director of technical services in 2007. Add earned a computer science degree from San Jose State University in 2000. He is passionate about user experience (UX) and user interface programming. He has been involved in the development and management of the 4D Knowledgebase and 4D Partner Central websites.