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IBM Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
Administering applications
IBM® Domino® Designer provides features for administering and managing your work and related files while developing your application projects.
Source control in Domino® Designer
Source control operations are possible with Domino® Designer. The section provides all the information needed for using the source control enablement feature which makes this functionality available.
Source control enablement
Source control enablement feature has been introduced to let you store NSF based design elements into a source control repository and perform common source control operations using Domino® Designer.

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.
- 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.
  - Source control in Domino® Designer
    Source control operations are possible with Domino® Designer. The section provides all the information needed for using the source control enablement feature which makes this functionality available.
    - Source control enablement
      Source control enablement feature has been introduced to let you store NSF based design elements into a source control repository and perform common source control operations using Domino® Designer.
    - Prerequisite: Setting up the version source control system used with source control enablement
      This topic describes how to first setup a version source control system so that you can use the source control enablement feature.
    - Setting up the Source Control enablement feature
      The following topics provide information on initial set up tasks that need to be completed in order to begin using the Domino® Designer source control enablement feature as part of your day-to-day source control operations.
    - Completing common source control tasks with the Source Control Enablement feature
      The basic steps of a general workflow are provided to give you an idea of how it works with the Domino® Designer source control enablement feature.
  - Command Line Building of NSFs/NTFs - Headless Designer
    A command line build system has been added to Domino® Designer to let you build NSF and NTF files from source code repositories.
- 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.

Source control enablement

Source control enablement feature has been introduced to let you store NSF based design elements into a source control repository and perform common source control operations using Domino® Designer.

Eclipse based (i.e. open source) source control clients such as SVN and CCRC work on physical files. As such they can not directly work with Designer projects that contain virtual files mapping to NSF based design elements. They only work with projects that are saved on disk. As such, you need to work on a project on disk that mirrors the virtual NSF project to perform source control operations.

To help resolve this, the Domino® Designer source control enablement feature has been introduced to let you store NSF based design elements into a source control repository and perform common source control operations using Domino® Designer. The feature does this by letting you create an association between an on-disk project managed by the source control and the virtual NSF based project that Designer tracks. This step is, in fact, a prerequisite that needs to be completed before carrying out any basic source controls operations.

Finally, this feature lets you integrate an SVN source control client with Domino® Designer as seamlessly as possible and to let Domino® Designer to stay as source control system agnostic as much as possible.