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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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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 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Print Objects to PDF

When trying to print to pdf, all fields within the object are not displayed, even if all sections are expanded. The functionality is useful during reviews and requests from regulators. At times the exports and Cognos reports cut off longer fields.
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 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.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 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 functionali...
almost 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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 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...
about 3 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 4 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...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Associating Profiles to Groups

If we have a group associated to the profile In Openpages and we add a new user to that group the user isn't being assigned/associated to the profile. The profile is associated to the users and not to the groups. So it causes manual work of assign...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Lack of advanced filter in new UI

The new UI does not include advanced filter. This function is of critical importance to our business users and the filtering available in the new UI is not sufficient for their day to day needs.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered