I joined InterSystems less than a year ago. Diving into ObjectScript and IRIS was exciting, but also full of small surprises that tripped me up at the beginning. In this article I collect the most common mistakes I, and many new colleagues, make, explain why they happen, and show concrete examples and practical fixes. My goal is to help other new developers save time and avoid the same bumps in the road.

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Hi Community,

We're super excited and thankful to our 52 InterSystems colleagues who participated in the 📺 Demo Games for InterSystems Sales Engineers 📺 and created 19 amazing videos.

Our colleagues worldwide put their creativity, technical know-how, and demo magic to the test. What started as an internal contest to showcase technical skill and demo excellence became a true stage for imagination with some entries looking less like demos and more like short films, complete with acting, storytelling, and even a cinematic touch.

Also, we'd like to thank all the members of the Community who took the time to watch them and vote for their favourites!

And now it's time to announce the winners!

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Starting out with ObjectScript, it is really exciting, but it can also feel a little unusual if you're used to other languages. Many beginners trip over the same hurdles, so here are a few "gotchas" you'll want to watch out for. (Also few friendly tips to avoid them)

NAMING THINGS RANDOMLY

We have all been guilty of naming something Test1 or MyClass just to move on quickly. But once your project grows, these names become a nightmare.

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In the WRC, we often see customers raise questions regarding a new Web Gateway setup where the Management Portal half-loads, but doesn’t show images. This article will explain why this error occurs, as well as how to fix it. This explanation is focused on the Web Gateway serving InterSystems IRIS instances, but the same explanation should apply to the CSP Gateway serving Caché instances as well.

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· Sep 13
Ensemble query

Hi Team,

I've basic learning in Ensemble. I want to create a code as per following request. Please help in clearing following questions

We have a business process-AA. In this business process, we have onRequest method, here after performing some logic, I have to call a method ProcessAAlogic.

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Plug-N-Play on Pattern Match WorkBench

Article to announce pre-built pattern expressions are available from demo application.

AI deducing patterns require ten and more sample values to get warmed up.

The entry of a single value for a pattern has therefore been repurposed for retrieving pre-built patterns.

Example: Email address

Paste an sample value for example an email address in description and press "Pattern from Description".

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This year, our InterSystems Developer Community turns 10 years old — and we’re inviting YOU to take part in the celebration!

We’re creating a special community video filled with greetings and memories from members worldwide. Want to join in? It’s simple:

▶️ Record a short clip (1-2 mins) where you:

  • Share a favorite highlight or memorable moment from your time in the Developer Community
  • Send your congratulations on the 10th anniversary 🎊

We’ll combine the contributions into one big celebratory video for everyone to enjoy! 🎬✨

👉 Click here to record your video

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#InterSystems Demo Games entry

⏯️ Text-to-SQL and MQTT Monitoring

A text-to-sql demo on mqtt data analytics with RAG.

🗣 Presenter: @Jeff Liu, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqTGk6eiPXA
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You’ve probably already seen that the September Article Bounty is in full swing! 🚀

You can either submit an existing up-to-date article on one of the topics and earn 30 points,
or write a brand-new article from scratch and get a bounty of 🏆 5,000 points once it’s approved! 🎉

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I would like to learn about the binary and document reference FHIR Resources. For the PDF data stored in those resources. But I think Binary Resource for the Document PDF stored in FHIR, so this resource is best for it. So sometimes Large PDF 15-page (~35md) data converts into base64 then data length is ~50 lac charecters length of base64binary data. this data store in Binary Resource on data field https://www.hl7.org/fhir/R4/binary.html follow this url this resource used in my case.

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· Sep 10
FDN Help

New to using FDN, and the Form Wizard on learning.intersystems.com does not go into enough detail to help with my questions...

  1. Is there a way to control text size within the Form Definition?
  2. Is there a way to make Sections more of a Page based caching then, waiting for the entire page to load?
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Hi Community,

We're super excited to start sharing with you the recordings from the recent Ready 2025. And, of course, we're going to begin with the most important session of all - the one about Developer Ecosystem, highlighting the latest resources and tools available to our developer community..

🤩 InterSystems Developer Ecosystem - New Resources and Tools You Need to Know @ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/uVMXL86TbI8
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A benefit of using Doxygenerate is that Doxygen does more than just HTML output. Tweak the Doxyfile that tells Doxygen what to do and you can easily create a PDF. Our example MARINA application yielded a 524-page PDF. Here's what page 94 looks like:

You can browse the whole file here.

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Hello Everyone,

I’m excited to join the InterSystems Developer Community, a place where IRIS, Caché, Ensemble, HealthShare, and all things InterSystems come alive through shared knowledge and collaboration.

A little about me,

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A step by step implementation path to a cross regional stretched IrisCluster with Mirroring using the Intersystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO), Google Cloud Platform, and Tailscale.

I am giving this distraction the code name "Compliment Sandwich" for a reason yet to be realized, but I'd rather the community go right for the jugular shooting holes in a solution that implements wireguard based connectivity for our workloads in general, as I would like to refine it as a fall project leading up to KubeCon in Atlanta and if I miss the mark, Ill get it done before Amsterdam.

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Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is available on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Reintroducing the Operational Data Store

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bjx90-eAMdU
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