HCL Domino Ideas Portal

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    Add ability to tables to change row color programmatically

    We have several Tabbed rows that have fields on them. Some of those fields are mandatory. It would be nice to be able to highlight the row and change the color if one of these field is not filled in. Its a visual clue to the user that they need to...
    about 5 years ago in Domino Designer / @Formulas 1 Under Consideration

    Integrate application lifecycle management features for templates and apps

    Development, deployment, versioning and keeping track of changes in Notes applications is a highly manual process. The git integration in the designer client is useful but not 100% working. Domino administrators need better tools to manage proce...
    over 6 years ago in Domino / General 1 Assessment

    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

    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

    Add isValid or equivalent to NotesCalendarEntry

    When you use NotesCalendar#getEntry, it will always return a NotesCalendarEntry object even if the UID is not found. An invalid UID will result in an object that throws an exception when you try to do basically anything with it. While documented, ...
    over 2 years ago in Domino Designer / Java 0 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

    Update Domino Java classes to use Java 8+ collections (retire Vector)

    Replace Vectors with newer collection data structures that support Streams, Collections. Forexample: Integer sum = Item.getValues().stream() .collect(Collectors.summingInt(Integer::intValue)); Somehow, we have to get to at least Java 8 struc...
    over 6 years ago in Domino Designer / Java 2 Under Consideration

    If there was anything in the rich text

    Even having a rough way to do this in Midas, I would really like to see a simple @formula (and matching Lotus Script) method for determining if there was anything in the rich text. Even better would be if it took an argument that specified whether...
    over 5 years ago in Domino Designer / @Formulas 1 Under Consideration
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