Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. 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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):

  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Workspace Content Navigator
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Created on Nov 10, 2026

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Enable Relative Date Selection in IBM Content Navigator Search

Currently, IBM Content Navigator allows users to perform searches using fixed date ranges (e.g., specific start and end dates). However, there is no built-in functionality to support relative date selection (e.g., "Last 7 days," "Last 30 days," "This month," or "Last year"). This limitation requires users to manually calculate and input date ranges, which is time-consuming and prone to errors.

Business Need:
End users frequently need to search for documents based on dynamic, relative timeframes (e.g., "Documents modified in the last week" or "Invoices created this quarter"). Implementing relative date selection would:

  • Improve efficiency by eliminating manual date calculations.
  • Enhance user experience with intuitive, predefined relative date options.
  • Align with modern search expectations in enterprise content management systems.

Proposed Enhancement:
Add a relative date picker to the search interface, allowing users to select from common relative date ranges (e.g., "Today," "Yesterday," "Last 7/30/90 days," "This/Last month/quarter/year") alongside existing fixed-date options. This could be implemented as:

  • A dropdown menu in the search filter for date fields (e.g., "Created," "Modified").
  • Customizable relative date presets (e.g., "Last N days" with user-defined N).
  • Support for relative dates in saved searches and templates.

Expected Benefits:

  • Time Savings: Reduces manual effort for recurring searches.
  • Accuracy: Minimizes errors from incorrect date calculations.

Flexibility: Supports dynamic reporting and compliance needs (e.g., audits requiring "last 90 days" of activity).

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