HCL Domino Ideas Portal

Welcome to the #dominoforever Product Ideas Forum! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.


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    Renaming the programmatic name when inserting a Shared Column

    When I insert shared columns, the programmatic name is not carried over. This is annoying when you insert several columns at the same time for many views. It then just shows something like $6 instead of $IconForm. I use the programmatic name to di...
    over 1 year ago in Domino Designer / Views 0 Needs Review

    Attaching a file from "EmbedObject" LotusScript code, the attached file is displayed as a generic gray icon

    While trying to add attachment using "EmbedObject" lotusscript method, the attachment icon is displaying as grayed out. However, if you try to add attachment manually, the icon display is proper. This seems to be working as designed. Please make t...
    over 4 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 2 Under Consideration

    Make the Domino console up and down arrows work the same as OS up and down arrows on the command line

    If you go to DOS and Linux command prompts, if you issue a command, and then press the up arrow, it always returns the last used command. The Domino console does not, if you use the up arrow to select a command, if you want to issue it again you h...
    10 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review

    Lotusscript formating

    "Select Case" statement indentation is not consistent in the eclipse based editor (agent, lotusscript library) Example code: Function selectcaseindent Dim caseIndent As String 'logic If True Then Select Case caseIndent Case "one": Pr...
    about 1 year ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to manually upload N/D installers in AutoUpdate database

    In the customer's environment, the Domino servers are locked down in a secured environment and have no means to communicate with the MyHCL Software Portal via the AutoUpdate feature. For such situations, the customer would like to request the abil...
    7 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Needs Review

    Domino Filesystem indexer should support long path-names

    The Domino (Domain Search) Filesystem indexer [edit] on Windows supports path lengths of max 256 chars (MAX_PATH). While Windows OS does somewhat provide support for longer paths, applications also need to support this as well. The Domain Indexer ...
    8 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review
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    Whenever a field formula throws a run-time error, the message should indicate the field name and formula

    For example, instead of "Only plain text can be used in this type of formula" I'd rather expect an error message like "Field xyz, Input Translation formula: Only plain text can be used"
    almost 8 years ago in Domino Designer 2 Assessment

    "dbcache flush <databasename>"

    Sometimes a database cannot be deleted while it is opened in the Domino database cache. An admin can issue a ""dbcache flush" for this case, but this clears the cache completely. The enhancement would be an option to remove only specific databases...
    over 7 years ago in Domino / Administration 6 Assessment

    WE NEED A WORKING IMPLEMENTATION FOR SOURCE CODE CONTROL! NOW!

    After HCL has taken over the Domino product landscape, we were told to use this AHA to collect ideas for improvement. And we did. But: Hello HCL, are you still there? Real improvements, that matters for us developers? ... None! As a developer, I d...
    over 3 years ago in Domino Designer 3 Assessment

    Formula Debugger

    Notes Formulas are a fast and elegant way to run actions, but testing without changing the code is worse. A formula debugger like the script debugger would be helpfull.
    over 7 years ago in Domino Designer / Debugger 3 Under Consideration
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