Hey Community,
We’re launching a new initiative in which ideas from the Ideas Portal become real applications on Open Exchange, and their authors are rewarded through Global Masters:
💡 Community Bounty Program “Idea to Application” ⚙️

InterSystems Ideas is a platform where InterSystems users can share their thoughts on adding new and improving existing functionality of the InterSystems products to better meet the needs of our customers. This tag encompasses all the posts concerning the portal, including the articles based on the ideas introduced on the Ideas Portal. This tag encompasses all the posts related to the portal, including the articles dedicated to the implementation of the ideas introduced on the Ideas Portal.
Hey Community,
We’re launching a new initiative in which ideas from the Ideas Portal become real applications on Open Exchange, and their authors are rewarded through Global Masters:
💡 Community Bounty Program “Idea to Application” ⚙️

Hi Community!
We’re building a series of short, hands-on Instruqt tutorials to help newcomers get up to speed with InterSystems technologies faster and more effectively. To kick things off, we’ve just released a new tutorial, “Data Models of InterSystems IRIS,” covering the fundamentals of the IRIS multimodel approach. This is exactly the type of focused, concise, practical learning experience we want to expand. And this is where you come in!
We’d love to hear your ideas for other tutorial topics to help developers new to InterSystems IRIS take their first steps with confidence. Please welcome the new sweepstakes:
💡 Topics for hands-on Instruqt Tutorials 💡

Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #28 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Update on the current sweepstakes
✓ Your ideas implemented by InterSystems
And a little teaser: look forward to an exciting initiative linking Ideas Portal, Open Exchange, Global Masters, and Developer Community!
Hi Community!
It's time to share the Top InterSystems Ideas Portal Contributors of 2025 🌟
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #27 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ New sweepstakes!
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems

Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #26 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems
✓ Recently implemented ideas by Developer Community members
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Hi Community,
We’d like to remind everyone of the value your feedback and observations bring to improving InterSystems products. Our customer support is world-famous, but if you're not a formal customer yet it can be confusing how to engage with us. We have now filled that gap.
Every time you notice an issue - whether it’s a broken feature, a UI glitch, or something that just doesn’t work as expected - the Ideas Portal is now also the way to submit bug reports.
***REMEMBER: If you have access to WRC, please submit the report via WRC as usual!***
Here’s how it works:
1. Go to the Ideas Portal and click Add a new idea
2. Provide the title, short description, choose “Bug reports” in the category field, and click Next
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We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025!
See the results below.
Hi Community,
With the General Availability of the 2025.3 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health™, and HealthShare® Health Connect, we are now collecting your ideas for improvement.
If the new release inspired you or highlighted opportunities to enhance the developer experience, please share your suggestions on the InterSystems Ideas Portal - every idea is reviewed by our product teams and can influence future releases.
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Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:
See the details below.
Hi Community!
We’re excited to announce a brand-new sweepstakes. This time, the theme is:
💡 Initial Developer Experience 💡
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We want to hear your thoughts on how we can make the very first steps with InterSystems technologies smoother, clearer, and more inspiring. Whether it’s documentation, onboarding, setup, or tutorials, your ideas can make a real difference!
If you have already built unit tests using the %UnitTest framework, or are thinking about doing so, please take a look at InterSystems Testing Manager.
Without leaving VS Code you can now browse your unit tests, run or debug them, and view previous run results.
InterSystems Testing Manager works with both of the source code location paradigms supported by the ObjectScript extension. Your unit test classes can either be mastered in VS Code's local filesystem (the 'client-side editing' paradigm) or in a server namespace ('server-side editing').
Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #25 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently added Community Opportunity ideas
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #24 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems
✓ Recently implemented ideas by Developer Community members
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Hi Community!
Our 💡 InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡 has come to an end. 26 new ideas that followed the required structure were accepted into the contest!
They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.
And now let's announce the winners...
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #23 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! These have been very busy two months, so let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Results of InterSystems Ideas Contest
✓ Community Opportunity Ideas
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Hello Community,
We're thrilled to invite all our Developer Community members (both InterSystems employees and not) to participate in our next contest!
💡 The 4th InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡
We're looking for your innovative ideas to enhance InterSystems IRIS and related products and services. We encourage suggestions based on real-life use cases, highlighting the tangible benefits your idea will bring to other users and how it will enhance developers' experiences with InterSystems technology.
📅 Duration: June 9 - July 20, 2025
🏆 Prizes for the best ideas and a random draw!
🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.
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>> SUBMIT AN IDEA <<
Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #22 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas
✓ New features
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #21 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General statistics
✓ Community Opportunity ideas
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #20 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General statistics
✓ Results of the "DC search" sweepstakes
✓ DC search ideas to vote for
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Hi Community!
Because our previous sweepstakes was such a blast, we've decided to do a repeat performance 😉 And this time, the topic of our sweepstakes is
🔎 DC search 🔍
We think you might have a few suggestions on how we can improve our search engine, and we would absolutely love to hear from you!
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Hi Community!
Welcome to Issue #19 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:
✓ General statistics
✓ New "DC search" sweepstakes
✓ New ideas to support

Hi Community!
It's time to share the Ideas Portal 2024 annual stats and the Top InterSystems Ideas Contributors of 2024 🌟
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Hi Developers!
Welcome to Issue #18 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest implemented ideas:
✓ Ideas brought to life during the "Bringing Ideas to Reality" programming contest
✓ Ideas implemented by InterSystems in Q4 2024
✓ New article featuring an idea realized by the talented Musketeers team

Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 17th edition of the InterSystems Ideas bulletin! This time, you can read about the following:
✓Bringing Ideas to Reality Contest
✓ Recently posted "Community Opportunity" ideas
✓ Vote for implemented ideas you are curious about
Hi, Community!
We've had several new ideas from the Ideas portal implemented and thought that you might be curious to learn more about them in our series of articles dedicated to Implemented ideas 😉
So help us choose the ideas you want us to write about in the poll below.
Do you have an idea that could make a real impact on InterSystems technology and be realised by Community members? Now’s the perfect time to share your thoughts!
We’re preparing something exciting and would love to see the ideas you think could take InterSystems to the next level. To achieve this, we need you to come up with new ideas for our Ideas Portal that could be considered as "Community Opportunity" ideas*.
Thus, put on your thinking cap and submit your ideas on the Ideas Portal by mid-November, and stay tuned for more updates.
Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 16th edition of the InterSystems Ideas news! Here's what you can expect from it:
✓Ideas implemented in Q3 2024
✓ Select an idea to implement from "Community Opportunity" ideas
✓ Vote and comment on new ideas submitted in Q3 2024
Hey Community,
We’re pleased to announce that the InterSystems Ideas Portal now features 400 diverse and innovative ideas 🙌🙌🙌
This milestone highlights the active participation and creativity of our Community. We appreciate all the contributions and support that drive the ongoing success of this portal!