InterSystems Ideas is a platform where InterSystems users can share their thoughts on adding new and improving existing functionality of the InterSystems products to better meet the needs of our customers. This tag encompasses all the posts concerning the portal, including the articles based on the ideas introduced on the Ideas Portal. This tag encompasses all the posts related to the portal, including the articles dedicated to the implementation of the ideas introduced on the Ideas Portal.
We hope you know that when you have an interesting idea about InterSystems products or services, you should publish it on the Ideas Portal. And those Developer Community members who implement the proposed ideas are added to the "Hall of Fame". Want to get accepted to the InterSystems Ideas Hall of Fame? Read on to learn how you can get on the list.
Welcome to Issue #18 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest implemented ideas:
✓ Ideas brought to life during the "Bringing Ideas to Reality" programming contest ✓ Ideas implemented by InterSystems in Q4 2024 ✓ New article featuring an idea realized by the talented Musketeers team
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-HL7v2Gen .
IRIS-HL7v2Gen is a CSP application that facilitates the dynamic generation of HL7 test messages. This process is essential for testing, debugging, and integrating healthcare data systems. The application allows users to generate a wide variety of HL7 message types, validate their structure against HL7 specifications, explore the message hierarchy, and transmit messages over TCP/IP to production systems. These features are particularly useful in settings where compliance with HL7 standards is mandatory for interoperability between different healthcare organizations or systems.
Application Features
Dynamic HL7 Message Generation: Instantly create HL7 messages for a range of message types, facilitating comprehensive testing.
Message Structure Exploration: Visualize the structure of generated messages based on HL7 specifications.
Value Set Visualization View predefined sets of allowable coded values for specific fields.
Message Validation: Validate messages against HL7 standards to ensure compliance.
TCP/IP Communication: Easily transmit messages to production using TCP/IP settings.
Broad Message Type Support: Supports 184 different HL7 message types, ensuring versatility for various healthcare integration needs.
ClassMethod: Generate a Test Message by Invoking a Class Method
Version Support: Currently Supports HL7 Version 2.5
We've had several new ideas from the Ideas portal implemented and thought that you might be curious to learn more about them in our series of articles dedicated to Implemented ideas 😉
So help us choose the ideas you want us to write about in the poll below.
The IRIS Management Portal is localized (translated) for some (many?) languages and the language used by the Management Portal interface is determined by the browser settings, often derived from the OS settings (can be changed).
This means that if a user, like me, want to use ONLY the English version of the Management Portal, each and every time you login you need to change the language. VERY annoying.
I know I can change the language configured in Browser, BUT, I want to use English for the IRIS management portal non for all my internet activity!
Do you have an idea that could make a real impact on InterSystems technology and be realised by Community members? Now’s the perfect time to share your thoughts!
We’re preparing something exciting and would love to see the ideas you think could take InterSystems to the next level. To achieve this, we need you to come up with new ideas for our Ideas Portal that could be considered as "Community Opportunity" ideas*.
Thus, put on your thinking cap and submit your ideas on the Ideas Portal by mid-November, and stay tuned for more updates.
This milestone highlights the active participation and creativity of our Community. We appreciate all the contributions and support that drive the ongoing success of this portal!
Our 💡 3rd InterSystems Ideas Contest has come to an end. As a result, there are 🔥 30 new ideas! They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products and services, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.
We're looking for your innovative ideas to enhance InterSystems IRIS and related products and services. We encourage suggestions based on real-life use cases, highlighting the tangible benefits your idea will bring to other users and how it will enhance developers' experiences with InterSystems technology.
📅 Duration: June 10 - July 7, 2024
🏆 Prizes for the best ideas!
🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. When properly defined, a consumer can understand and interact with the remote service with a minimal amount of implementation logic. While for SOAP based APIs there is a special wizard in InterSystems IRIS that cuts down orchestrations development time, not all APIs used in integrations are SOAP. That's why @Jaime Lerga suggested to add a wizard similar to the SOAP wizard to generate a REST client from OpenAPI specification. Implementation of this idea cuts down the development time of the REST API orchestrations with InterSystems IRIS. This idea is one of most popular ideas on the InterSystems ideas. This article, the third in the "Implemented Ideas" series, focuses on the OpenAPI Suite solution developed by @Lorenzo Scalese.
We know how frustrating it can be to receive a lot of emails (and we definitely don't want to add to your load), so here is how you can set up email notifications for the InterSystems Ideas portal.
By default, all registered users are subscribed to all categories of ideas. To change this, just enter your Ideas Portal profile, select "Edit Profile," then click inside the item "Weekly summary email," click on "Categories to highlight" and choose what you're interested in.
We have launched a new Ideas Portal category dedicated to this database-as-a-service (DBaaS) where we're looking for your ideas on how we can improve InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL.
Or share your experience with the service in the comments to this post.
JSON is a lightweight data interchange formatfor representing and exchanging data between a server and a web application. Its popularity has led to its widespread use in applications based on InterSystems technology, as well as demand for a converter that transforms globals to JSON and back. Therefore, @Evgeny Shvarov suggested developing Global->JSON->Global converter. Implementing such a converter is important to ensure interoperability, simplify data exchange, support web services, and provide a standardized approach to data representation across different software ecosystems. This article, the second in the "Implemented Ideas" series, focuses on several projects created by the legend of InterSystems Developer Community @Robert Cemper that deal with this task:
The %CSP.Login class is the utility class provided by InterSystems IRIS to do custom login pages. If you want to control your IRIS application authentication UI, you must extend %CSP.Login and override some methods according to your needs. This article is going to detail those methods and what you can do with them. In addition to that, you will get an explanation of the delegated authentication mechanism provided by ZAUTHENTICATE.mac routine.
Not so long ago, I came across the idea of using Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes on the InterSystems Ideas Portal. It caught my attention since integrating as many syntaxes as possible gives visibility to InterSystems’s products for programmers with experience in many languages.
There is a free ObjectScriptQuality tool for ObjectScript developers who upload solutions on GitHub. This tool helps developers validate ObjectScript code using a variety of rules, based on common code errors.
Django, a high-level web framework written in Python, has become a staple for developers seeking a robust, efficient, and easy-to-learn solution for building web applications. Its popularity stems from its versatility, offering developers an efficient toolkit for building web applications. Integrating Django with InterSystems IRIS introduces a dynamic synergy, providing developers with a comprehensive web development and database management solution. That's why on the Ideas Portal, @Evgeny Shvarov suggested that having Examples to work with IRIS from Django would be beneficial. In this article, we'll explore two projects created to answer the posted idea — Django-iris by @Dmitry Maslennikovand Iris-size-django by @Heloisa Paiva.
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