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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 Source Control user preferences
You can customize Domino Designer source control features to make your application development process and source control tasks more efficient.

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 Source Control user preferences

You can customize Domino Designer source control features to make your application development process and source control tasks more efficient.

To access the Source Control Preferences panel, choose File >Preferences >Domino Designer >Source Control. You can change the following source control settings from this panel.

Use Binary DXL for source control operations - This setting is enabled by default. There are different ways to represent the design elements on disk depending on the type of the design element being represented. See the "Selecting the way to represent the design elements on disk" section in this guidefor complete details. Deselect this setting to disable it.
Enable automatic export of the design elements (from NSF to disk) on modification - This setting is enabled by default. This preference is provided to enable implicit export of design elements after they are modified inside NSF by user. If this preference is selected, any edits to the NSF project (for example create/update/delete of a form, XPage, etc) are reflected to the on-disk project implicitly, which you can then commit to the source control repository. Deselect this setting to disable it.
Enable automatic import of the design elements (from NSF to disk) on modification - This setting is enabled by default. This preference is provided for allowing implicit import of design files from disk to NSF when they are modified in the disk project. This also needs Auto-build to be ON. After setting this preference, if user updates the disk project with the contents from the repository, the changes would get auto-imported inside the NSF. Deselect this setting to disable it.
Show Helper panel in Set Up wizard - This setting is enabled by default. This preference will show a helper panel describing the source control enablement feature when the Team Development-Set Up Source Control for this Application panel is invoked. Deselect this setting to disable it.

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.