#Developer Community Official

Among the numerous authors present on the InterSystems Developer Community, there are unsung heroes who leave a lasting impact through their dedication and contributions. One such member is @Ben Spead, whose experiences and milestones have greatly shaped our Developer Community. He has consistently championed the communities, starting with Zen Community in 2008 to being an early participant in the Developer Community's beta phase in 2015.

🤩 Let's take a closer look at Ben's journey with InterSystems technology and our Developer Community...

Hey Community,

Do you want to get help, discuss an interesting feature, make an announcement or share your knowledge? In this post, we will tell you how to do it all.

To make it easier to navigate this "how to" just follow the contents:

• General guidelines
• Question
• Article or Announcement
• Discussion

General guidelines

To begin, you need to click on the "New post" button in the top menu of the Developer Community site:

After that, you will see the editor that will give you the choice of creating a Question, an Announcement, an Article, or a Discussion. Different types of posts have their own sets of mandatory and optional fields.

Today, we'd like to spotlight one of the standout members of the InterSystems Developer Community: @Benjamin De Boe. Since the inception of the InterSystems Developer Community, he has shared his expertise, contributing thoughtful articles, practical demos, and answers to questions. Having worked with InterSystems products since 2010, Benjamin brought invaluable knowledge to the Developer Community. From navigating iKnow projects to simplifying complex deployments with Docker and Python, he has continually inspired fellow developers through his work and presence on the Community.

🤩 Let's take a closer look at Benjamin's journey with InterSystems technology and our Developer Community...

Hello Community,

Some of you have passed the InterSystems Official Certification and would like to get a nifty green tick on your profile avatar

and all your certificates in your DC profile so that others know that you know... you know what we mean

So, to add certification to your DC profile, you need to take 3 easy steps:

1️⃣ Go to your DC profile

2️⃣ Go to the InterSystems Certification section

3️⃣ Click on the Load my certification(s) button

and that's it!

Hi Developers!

This is the second post on the resources for Developers. This part is about Open Exchange

Using Open Exchange to Learn InterSystems

InterSystems Open Exchange is a applications gallery of tools, connectors, and libraries which InterSystems Developers submit to share the experience, approaches and do business. All the applications are either built with InterSystems data platforms or are intended to use for development with InterSystems data platforms.

If you are a beginner developer you can take a look at applications in Technology Example category. All the applications in this category come with open source code repositories, so you are able to run the samples and examples in a docker container with IRIS on your laptop or in the cloud IRIS sandbox. Examples:

You know several languages and wish to share your knowledge with users in different parts of the world who don't speak English?

Now it's your time to shine! 🤩

With our Developer Community, it is easy to link your original article and its translation in a different language (or even ask for a translation).

So let's talk about creating your own translation:

Hi Community!

Recently we added polls in DC functionality.

How to add it?

Create a usual post. Go below to the bottom of post settings and click on

Then fill the question and options for the poll. See the animated gif:

Hi Community!

You've possibly noticed ES switcher in articles.

If not - we recently introduced the option to switch to the Spanish version of the article.

Hey Members!

We know there are times when some of you are looking for new team members. So here is a short tutorial on how you can place your job opportunities on the Community to attract the best employees ever!

First of all, you need to add a tag Job Opportunity.

Hi Community,

Some of you would like to share an event (online or offline) with others on our Community and here is a how-to on how to actually create an Event to invite your fellow members.

The main challenge when creating an event is to fill in all the necessary pieces of information in the right places. So let's look at what needs to be done.

Hey Community!

There are occasions when you really need to get in touch with a member of our Community a.k.a. author of a post or developer of a particular project, to discuss something, catch up, or whatever. And exactly for this reason, we have Direct Messages where you can send a message directly to a specific person or even have a group chat!

Our Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and manager pledge to making participation in InterSystems Developer Community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

Hi Community!

We've introduced Direct Messages on InterSystems Community.

What's that?

Direct message(DM) is a Developer Community feature which lets you to send a direct message to InterSystems community member you want.

How to send it?

Open member's page, and click "Send Direct Message". Like here:

Hey Developers,

If you wish to know how you're doing in the Community and see your stats, you don't need to scroll through all your posts in your profile (though it is also possible). You can use the Online Analytics Dashboard. In it you can see your own detailed statistics for the current week, month, and all time, including:

• number of views, likes, comments, followers
• timeline graphics of views, likes, actions with your posts, comments
• a table containing info about views, comments, and likes for your every post