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    Insufficient memory - too many design elements

    Errors like "Insufficient memory - too many design elements (Dark Design Pool)" or similar occurs when a limit is reached. This makes it impossible to open the database. The should not be such a low limit on design elements, preferably no limit at...
    5 months ago in Domino / General 0 Needs Review

    Support for multiple DAOS volumes

    Today DAOS supports only a single store with directories from 0001 to 9999.Specially for larger enviroments a single disk can become a limiting factor.Disks can be quite large today, but if you have to guarantee a recovery response time, splitting...
    over 2 years ago in Domino / General 0 Under Consideration

    Excluding forms directly from full-text indexes is not supported.

    In Domino 12, there is an option to exclude fields from full-text indexes. Please refer to the article below for the steps and more details. Title: Specifying fields to exclude from full-text indexes https://help.hcl-software.com/dom_designer/12.0...
    over 1 year ago in Domino / General 1 Needs Review

    Notes view - Column margins

    Add possibility to set view column margins. Situation:There are two columns. 1st is numeric and justified to the right, 2nd is text justified to left. The resulting view has very narrow space between the values and you have to add extra column or ...
    over 2 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 1 Under Consideration

    Finish documenting $ViewFormat format

    The $ViewFormat item in views and folders contains an ever-expanding list of structures, most of which have variable data. The C API documentation, however, mostly stopped bothering keeping up to date - half of the references stop around R4, while...
    over 4 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 6 Planning to Implement

    Ability to sort a view on category totals like Excel pivot tables can.

    Now if I want to sort data by category total I need to export my data and switch to excel, make a pivot, categorize my data there and then sort it there. A build-in tool to do so in Lotus Domino would be really nice.
    about 4 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 0 Under Consideration

    Click sort using other column values

    When I click on a column that has "Click on column header to sort" enabled, I may want to sort by other column values. For example, the first column is the country name, and the column value is "USA" or "Japan". The second column is the country co...
    over 6 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 0 Under Consideration

    Dynamic Views

    In the Notes Client, in Notes Views, display dynamic data based on a query that does not require an index.Such a feature has been introduced in Notes/Domino 7 with the Db2 access views but was limited to Db2 data.We would like to have possibility ...
    over 6 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 1 Under Consideration

    Using @today and @now in Views without rebuilding the view

    now, if these functions are used in columns or selections, the view is rebuilt each time it is opened. This can take a long time for many documents in the view. There are currently a few workarounds, but official support for these features would b...
    over 7 years ago in Domino Designer / @Formulas / Views 5 No Plans to Implement

    @Formula scriptlibrary that I can re-use across my design elements

    If I have an @Formula function that I want to reuse across my design elements (e.g. Postopen event for all views and database script) I have to rewrite the function for every design element. It would be much handier if I could store the code as a ...
    over 3 years ago in Domino Designer / @Formulas 1 Under Consideration
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