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

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.
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 Community!
We hope you know that when you have an interesting idea about InterSystems products or services, you should publish it on the Ideas Portal. And those Developer Community members who implement the proposed ideas are added to the "Hall of Fame". Want to get accepted to the InterSystems Ideas Hall of Fame? Read on to learn how you can get on the list.
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

This article is part of a series showcasing the implementation of ideas from the Ideas Portal, where innovative concepts come to life!
Many InterSystems IRIS developers frequently need to create unit tests for ObjectScript classes — a process often done manually. The iris-tripleslash application revolutionizes this by automatically generating unit test classes with test methods for all the class methods of the original class. Developed by the talented Musketeers team — @José Pereira, @Henrique Dias, @henry — this tool was inspired by an idea shared by @Evgeny Shvarov on the Ideas Portal: "Add a project that helps to generate unittests for an ObjectScript class".
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.
The IRIS Management Portal is localized (translated) for some (many?) languages and the language used by the Management Portal interface is determined by the browser settings, often derived from the OS settings (can be changed).
This means that if a user, like me, want to use ONLY the English version of the Management Portal, each and every time you login you need to change the language. VERY annoying.
I know I can change the language configured in Browser, BUT, I want to use English for the IRIS management portal non for all my internet activity!
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
Hi Developers!
We're sure you want your ideas from the Ideas Portal to be implemented, so here are some steps you can take to attract attention to them.
You might know that you can search posts in DC by Tags
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that's fine to start. But - based on some local feedback - some improvements
might make is more useful. actual the SELECT works .. IF TAGS CONTAIN %tag
This spams you with a lot of results but often much more than useful
so the suggestions for extensions:
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!
Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 15th edition of the InterSystems Ideas news! We dedicate this news bulletin to:
✓Idea Leaders of 2024
✓ Voting for ideas on Open Exchange
✓ Recently posted ideas waiting to be implemented by the Developer Community
Hi Community!
Our 💡 3rd InterSystems Ideas Contest has come to an end. As a result, there are 🔥 30 new ideas! They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products and services, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.
And now we announce the winners...
Hello Community,
We're super excited to invite all our Developer Community members (both InterSystems employees and not) to participate in our next contest!
💡 The 3rd 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 10 - July 7, 2024
🏆 Prizes for the best ideas!
🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.
Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 14th edition of the InterSystems Ideas news!! This time, you can read about the following:
✓Hints & Tips for the participants of the 3rd InterSystems Ideas Contest
✓ Brand new Ideas Portal landing page
✓ Recently implemented ideas
Hi Developers!
Welcome to Issue #13 of the InterSystems Ideas news! We dedicate this news bulletin to recently posted ideas:
✓Most popular new ideas
✓ Recently posted ideas marked for implementation by Community members
✓ New ideas related to topics like Vector Search, GenAI and ML
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. When properly defined, a consumer can understand and interact with the remote service with a minimal amount of implementation logic. While for SOAP based APIs there is a special wizard in InterSystems IRIS that cuts down orchestrations development time, not all APIs used in integrations are SOAP. That's why @Jaime Lerga suggested to add a wizard similar to the SOAP wizard to generate a REST client from OpenAPI specification. Implementation of this idea cuts down the development time of the REST API orchestrations with InterSystems IRIS. This idea is one of most popular ideas on the InterSystems ideas. This article, the third in the "Implemented Ideas" series, focuses on the OpenAPI Suite solution developed by @Lorenzo Scalese.
Hi Community!
We know how frustrating it can be to receive a lot of emails (and we definitely don't want to add to your load), so here is how you can set up email notifications for the InterSystems Ideas portal.
By default, all registered users are subscribed to all categories of ideas. To change this, just enter your Ideas Portal profile, select "Edit Profile," then click inside the item "Weekly summary email," click on "Categories to highlight" and choose what you're interested in.
Hi Developers!
With InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL recently becoming Generally Available, some of you may have had a chance to try it out. Or maybe you used it for your contest entry or during the EAP period. We're curious to learn what YOU think of it. So, have you already tried the new service InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL?
We have launched a new Ideas Portal category dedicated to this database-as-a-service (DBaaS) where we're looking for your ideas on how we can improve InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL.
Or share your experience with the service in the comments to this post.
Hi Community!
Welcome to the 12th edition of the InterSystems Ideas news! Here's what you can expect from it:
✓ Call for ideas about InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL
✓ Get inspired by ideas from the InterSystems Ideas portal
✓ Recently implemented ideas
JSON is a lightweight data interchange formatfor representing and exchanging data between a server and a web application. Its popularity has led to its widespread use in applications based on InterSystems technology, as well as demand for a converter that transforms globals to JSON and back. Therefore, @Evgeny Shvarov suggested developing Global->JSON->Global converter. Implementing such a converter is important to ensure interoperability, simplify data exchange, support web services, and provide a standardized approach to data representation across different software ecosystems. This article, the second in the "Implemented Ideas" series, focuses on several projects created by the legend of InterSystems Developer Community @Robert Cemper that deal with this task:
The %CSP.Login class is the utility class provided by InterSystems IRIS to do custom login pages. If you want to control your IRIS application authentication UI, you must extend %CSP.Login and override some methods according to your needs. This article is going to detail those methods and what you can do with them. In addition to that, you will get an explanation of the delegated authentication mechanism provided by ZAUTHENTICATE.mac routine.
Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 11th edition of the InterSystems Ideas bulletin! This time, you can read about the following:
✓ Call for ideas concerning Generative AI
✓ New filter on Open Exchange
✓ Recently posted ideas
Not so long ago, I came across the idea of using Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes on the InterSystems Ideas Portal. It caught my attention since integrating as many syntaxes as possible gives visibility to InterSystems’s products for programmers with experience in many languages.
The author of that idea pointed out the possibility of creating classes using Python’s syntax, in addition to the currently available ones on IRIS. This concept inspired me to write this article, exploring the possibilities of accessing the full InterSystems power employing only Python.
Django, a high-level web framework written in Python, has become a staple for developers seeking a robust, efficient, and easy-to-learn solution for building web applications. Its popularity stems from its versatility, offering developers an efficient toolkit for building web applications. Integrating Django with InterSystems IRIS introduces a dynamic synergy, providing developers with a comprehensive web development and database management solution. That's why on the Ideas Portal, @Evgeny Shvarov suggested that having Examples to work with IRIS from Django would be beneficial. In this article, we'll explore two projects created to answer the posted idea — Django-iris by @Dmitry.Maslennikovand Iris-size-django by @Heloisa.Paiva.
Hey Community!
It's time to share the first-ever announcement of the Ideas Portal 2023 annual stats and the Top InterSystems Ideas Contributors for 2023 🌟
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Hi Developers!
Welcome to Issue 10 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Here's what you can expect from it:
✓ Month of ideas about "FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability"
✓ Reached 300 ideas on the Ideas Portal 🎉
✓ Recently implemented ideas
Hi Developers!
Welcome to the 9th edition of the InterSystems Ideas news! In this issue you can learn about:
✓ New page on the Ideas Portal - Idea-A-Thon Winners
✓ Implemented ideas for future announcements
✓ New ideas posted recently