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Knowledge base ui tweaks

November 9, 2010 by James

4D Knowledge base suffers from some UI problems that constantly irritate me. Warning, while these do appear on Firefox also, I’m a predominate Safari user.

    KB problems

  1. The box that displays the rows and rows of tech tips is statically set. You read that right, you cannot make it bigger, or full screen. It gloriously takes up a puny 800×600 pixels
  2. Clicking on assets launches them in tabs of aforementioned tiny resolution kb panel. While not that bad for smaller notes, it tries to open linked PDFs in there too. Way too small for that.
  3. Header sort and expand column are too finicky/hard to control. Often I want to expand the “Summary” section so I can read the entire title. Not only is it hard to expand without resorting, thus losing the asset I had selected from my field of view; expanding does not make the pane window bigger
  4. No advanced searching, filters does not equal advanced searching
  5. No searching by asset id or asset author
  6. If we are to have filters, how about by 4D summit materials

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Currently displayed form command

November 9, 2010 by James

A command Currently displayed form would return a text string of whatever form is set by INPUT FORM or DIALOG and is currently displayed.

4D feature request

This would help determine what the user is looking at during troubleshooting. Also the table name and form name could be passed to GET FORM PROPERTIES for even more information.

But without knowing which form (project or table) the user has up issue triage generally involves asking the user ‘what were you doing at the time of error?’.

Yes I am aware of WINDOW LIST and Current form table commands, neither gets the answer of what table or project form is currently displayed.

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New Database event – On Transaction Validate

November 4, 2010 by James

Right now there is no event thrown for VALIDATE/CANCEL transaction. I would like Database event to also return “On validate transaction” and “On cancel transaction”.

Why you ask? Because triggers are executed inside a transaction block, but if I want to know when the transaction ended I have to write application layer code for something 4D should know when it ended

So even though you can tell if you are in a transaction and what level the transaction is at, you can never tell when that transaction has completed in a trigger.

Vote for the feature request here.

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