Being able to communicate with users at other workstations is important in many businesses. Having chat functionality integrated in a developer's application can thus be very beneficial. Users can exchange critical information such as what work they are doing in the application or even just say hello. 4D Server has a built in feature for sending messages to clients, but it is not meant to be used like a chat application. Fortunately, chat functionality can be built fairly easily with 4D v11 SQL.

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