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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    103 VOTE

    Make Domino Designer a modern IDE

    Compared to other modern IDEs, Domino Designer is outdated. Missing keyboard shortcuts, autocomplete, intellisense. All those useful features that modern IDEs have. Just honestly use VSCode for a week and compare it to the Domino Designer to feel ...
    about 4 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 4 Under Consideration
    193 VOTE

    Fix all source control issues

    There are currently a number of issues with DXL round-tripping that affects use of source control. These include: All day agents are stored as running from 00:00 to 00:00. Somewhere in the DXL export / import that gets corrupted Something on navig...
    about 8 years ago in Domino Designer 16 Assessment
    193 VOTE

    Multi Threaded Design

    Can we bring this capability in domino so that agent can be design and run in multiple threads. HTTP requests can be design and process in multiple threads. Documents can be read write in multiple threads. In order to bring the functional performa...
    about 8 years ago in Domino Designer 5 Under Consideration

    Centralized Control of Sametime Geographic Location Switching for VPN Users

    The customer uses automatic geographic location switching in Sametime for HCL Notes and relies on this functionality for all users due to frequent remote work. While the feature generally works as expected, users who connect through a VPN are some...
    7 months ago in Sametime / Chat 1 Needs Review

    Bring back basic client designer support

    Even on modern CPUs with sufficient RAM the Eclipsed based designer causes a lot of delays and productivity loss. Nomad Web uses a kind of basic designer. So the basic designer code should somewhere still in the client which is much faster. Even N...
    11 months ago in Domino Designer 4 No Plans to Implement

    Make the transmute/POI Verse viewers accessible to other Domino Apps.

    Domino 12.0.2 added the transmute/Apache POI Verse file viewers for Office. It would be great if this API was exposed so that other Domino apps could offer the use the option of viewing Office files, vs just Downloading them to open with Office.
    5 months ago in Domino Designer 0 Needs Review
    165 VOTE

    Xpages, please Open Source and give back to community/OpenNTF

    It is clear that XPages is low priority now for HCL/IBM. It would be a good idea to Open Source and give it back to OpenNTF and community. Then it can still be further developed and maintained and have a future.
    about 8 years ago in Domino Designer / XPages 9 Assessment
    166 VOTE

    Update the Java API

    Current API is very dated and a chore to work with. OpenNTF Domino API addresses many issues but would be nice if this was part of Domino out of the box.
    about 8 years ago in Domino Designer / Java 10 Assessment

    Please remove the 64k limit from NotesHTTPRequest

    Please remove the 64k limit from NotesHTTPRequest. It accepts a String as input, those can be 2 GB. Also helpful if it would accept a NotesStream, so proper encoding can be ensured.
    over 4 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 0 Under Consideration

    Need solution for /userinfo/image API issue when pictures are secured for access

    In our organization, user pictures are not public. Users can determine of they want it to be public or give access to certain people. We have our own Picture Service which determine if you can or cannot see a user picture. And that's PER user. So ...
    6 months ago in Sametime / Chat 0 Needs Review
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