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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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OpenPages Ideas

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Restore rich text editor (CKEditor) features that were available in prior OpenPages releases

The migration from OpenPages v8.1 to OpenPages v9.0 is being impacted because the rich text editor (ckeditor) features have been removed and are no longer available in the new version. Features removed are: Maximize plugin - to maximize the rich t...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

Implement SQRRT (square root) math function for Calculations

Calculations allow to perform some math functions (e.g. AVG, SQR, ...) but do not implement the square root math function. When performing calculations for risk ratings, the function would be extremely useful.
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Delivered

Embedded Workflow enable multiple email templates

Enable more than one(1) email template to be used with the Embedded Workflow Engine. There should not be a limit on the email templates.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Integration of UI Extensions (Helpers) in the Task Focused UI

In many cases customers have UI extensions (helpers) to allow for functionality that is not available in the standard UI. In the new UI currently there are extensions for Watson Classifiers, but the ability to extend the UI for custom functionalit...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Enhance Filters to support empty and not empty

It would be useful for User fields and Date fields to support the empty and not empty options on filter in the UI. This could also apply to other fields as well. There are a lot of times when filtering you want to be able to search not on a specif...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Delivered

Searching on Nulls

We would like to have the ability on all of the filtered list views when using the Advanced Filter, to be able to search on fields that contain a null value in the DB. In addition we'd like to be able to filter on all values that are Not Null. Thi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

There should be custom message on workflow validations

When a validation is added in the workflow action (OP 8.2) - the validation error displayed on the UI does not represent the actual error that stopped the user from proceeding with the workflow action. Sometimes the error message is so meaningless...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Delivered

Task Focused UI - Linked Cognos reports opening in old Cognos viewer interface

With the upgrade to Cognos Analytics 11, one of the main functionalities is with report interactivity. OpenPages integration with Cognos is still using the pre-Cognos Analytics method and many of the new features do not run eg. Filters. Looking in...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 4 Delivered

Ability to tag a record as a favorite to receive notification when this record is updated

Nowadays, with the current technology, users expect their software to interact with them i.e. the software should 'talk' to the users and should provide information that helps the users perform their daily job. By tagging a specific record as 'fav...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered