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Know what IRIS version a class, method or property first appeared in

The online class documentation lets me discover what's in the %-packages. I can do this for each of the IRIS versions InterSystems maintain online documentation for. But I haven't found an easy way of being able to tell what changed between versio...
John Murray 29 days ago in Documentation 0 Community Opportunity

Include more examples / documentation

When implementing or troubleshooting code, it is helpful to have examples to compare against and most certainly from a support perspective where a user may not be experienced with that particular area. Real-life examples and / or documentation wou...
Jason Neate about 1 year ago in Documentation 0 Needs review

Best practices in a documentation chapter

I think it would be interesting to address in a chapter of the documentation good practices both in programming and in the design of persistent classes. It would be ideal to present some code examples. Some examples to illustrate my point: How to ...
Pierre LaFay 11 months ago in Documentation 0 Needs review

Prioritize search matches by title in documentation

The documentation searches are not prioritizing the matches by the title among all the matches when these matches are usually the best answer.
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos 6 months ago in Documentation 0 Needs review

cheat sheets

A recent post on the community gave me this idea. Couldn't we have a dedicated space or application to write cheat sheets? This could make it easy to have a cheat sheet possibly with sniplets. For my part, I am thinking of creating a web app in th...
Pierre LaFay 11 months ago in Documentation 0 Community Opportunity

Searchable Index of New Features

Please can you consider adding a searchable index of New Features to the Documentation/Community pages? I would like to see the version that a new feature was introduced/enhanced/formalised etc.
Paul Hurley over 1 year ago in Documentation 0 Future consideration

Add basic tutorial of Docker or point to a Docker tutorial in Documentation

I do not know about others, but Docker and the intro of Docker was not a forte of mine coming into trying out new components of InterSystems IRIS. We are moving to IRIS and with that we want to incorporate into our upgrade. I have been struggling ...
Scott Roth about 2 years ago in Documentation 6 Already exists

Connect InterSystems Documentation and Developer community

Developer community https://community.intersystems.com/ includes a lot useful technical articles and Q&A. I suggest to show related documents from Developer community on the InterSystems Documentation search results page. And also add on every...
Nikolay Soloviev almost 2 years ago in Documentation 0 Needs review

Open source documentation

It would be much better if documentation would use some existing popular documentation framework not based on IRIS. Documentation does not need IRIS for running at all. Use normal search engine instead of useless irrelevant non-prerdictable search...
Dmitry Maslennikov over 2 years ago in Documentation 1 Will not implement

Change the style of the tables in the official documentation

Describing the tables in the docs, two main points make it difficult to see to which row a sentence belongs: The colors that distinguish each line have low contrast (#FFFFFF and #F8F9F9); The texts are centralized in the y-axis (and thus, rows don...
Heloisa Paiva about 1 year ago in Documentation 0 Needs review