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IBM Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
Product overview
IBM® Domino® Designer supports applications development for the IBM Domino platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.
Navigation in Domino® Designer
IBM® Domino® Designer is installed as Eclipse perspectives arranged into easy-to-access views, palettes, and editors. You can perform tasks using the main menu, right-click menus, and icons in the view, palette, and editor title bars.
Setting Domino Designer user preferences
You can customize Domino Designer so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to.
Setting Domino Designer Java Editor user preferences
You can customize the settings of the Java™ Editor in Domino® Designer so that it runs the way you want it to.

IBM Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
- Product overview
  IBM® Domino® Designer supports applications development for the IBM Domino platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.
  - Understanding XPages
    An XPages application is XML interpreted by a Domino® server or Notes® client and rendered in a web browser or a Notes client. You can interact with controls on the page to send requests to the server.
  - Forms and views
    In Domino®, a form defines how documents are displayed to the user and how the form's data items are stored. A view reports documents in columns and rows.
  - Navigation in Domino® Designer
    IBM® Domino® Designer is installed as Eclipse perspectives arranged into easy-to-access views, palettes, and editors. You can perform tasks using the main menu, right-click menus, and icons in the view, palette, and editor title bars.
    - Design elements and the Applications Navigator
      Available design elements are displayed by the Applications Navigator.
    - Design editor
      The Design editor is where you edit XPages and other design elements, and view lists of design elements.
    - Source editor
      Use the Source editor to directly edit XPages source code.
    - Palettes and views
      Palettes and views provide the tools for working with the design elements.
    - Setting Domino Designer user preferences
      You can customize Domino Designer so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to.
      - Setting general Domino Designer user preferences
        You can customize many of the general settings of Domino® Designer so that the tool functions the way you that want.
      - Setting Domino Designer Application Navigator preferences
        You can customize the Designer Application Navigator display preferences to display only the design elements that you wish.
      - Setting IBM Bluemix preferences
        A preference panel has been added where you define the Bluemix™ Server connection when using Designer with Bluemix.
      - Setting Domino Designer Java Editor user preferences
        You can customize the settings of the Java™ Editor in Domino® Designer so that it runs the way you want it to.
      - Setting Domino Designer LotusScript Editor user preferences
        You can customize many of the settings of the LotusScript® Editor in Domino® Designer so that it functions the way you want it to.
      - Setting Domino Designer Source Control user preferences
        You can customize Domino Designer source control features to make your application development process and source control tasks more efficient.
      - Setting Domino Designer XPages user preferences
        You can modify XPages settings in Domino® Designer so that you can use this unique design element in custom ways in your application development.
  - Getting information
    The immediate resource for getting information is the installed help system. Other resources include an information center, a Domino® Designer wiki, and articles on various web sites.
  - Copyright
  - Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
    Domino® Designer provides some assistive aids to those with restricted mobility or limited vision.
- Tutorials
  This section contains tutorials and information about tutorials.
- Administering applications
  IBM® Domino® Designer provides features for administering and managing your work and related files while developing your application projects.
- Designing XPages applications
  IBM® Domino® Designer provides the means to populate an XPage with controls and other artifacts, and to associate an XPage with data stores.
- Designing composite applications
  You can create composite applications from XPages.
- Programming
  XPages uses JavaScript™ for programming while the forms-based design elements use the formula language, LotusScript®, Java™, and JavaScript.

Setting Domino® Designer Java™ Editor user preferences

You can customize the settings of the Java™ Editor in Domino® Designer so that it runs the way you want it to.

To access the Java™ Editor Preferences panel, choose File >Preferences >Domino Designer >Java Editor. You can change the following Java™ Editor settings from the Java™ Editor Preferences panel.

Use Eclipse-based Java™ Editor - The Java interface for agents, libraries, and Web services opens the Eclipse Java editor. You can switch back and forth between the Eclipse and Notes editor by selecting or clearing the related Designer editor preferences on this panel. Make sure this is checked (default setting) if you wish to use the Eclipse-based Java™ Editor. If it is not selected, then you will use the Notes-based Java Editor. Refer to the "Eclipse-based language interfaces" section of this guide for more detail.
Prompt me on save if there are Java™ errors - Select this option (default setting) if you want to be prompted on save if there are Java™ errors in the code you are writing. Errors are flagged in the folder hierarchy as an X in a red box. The specific errors are listed in the Problems view at the bottom of the screen. Expand and double-click on an error description to open the file containing the error. If it is not selected, then you will not be prompted. Refer to the "Eclipse-based language interfaces" section of this guide for more detail.
Enable refactoring of referenced Java™ file across design elements - Selecting this option lets you refactor a referenced Java™ file across design elements. This feature helps you improve, stabilize, and maintain your Java™ code by letting you make an application-wide coding changes without affecting the semantic behavior of the application. Deselect this option to disable this feature. Refer to the "Eclipse-based language interfaces" section of this guide for more detail.
Autosave Java™ design element on save of individual Java™ sources - Selecting this option enables autosaving of a Java™ design element when you save individual Java™ sources. Deselect this option to disable this feature.

Click Apply to save your settings changes. You can restore the default choices at any time by clicking on the Restore Defaults button.

Click OK to exit the panel or click Cancel to cancel the choices you have made and exit the panel.