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IBM Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
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.
Using Domino® Designer with XPages in Bluemix™
IBM® Domino® Designer is designed to work with IBM Bluemix™, the cloud-based application development environment.
Additional Bluemix™ and Designer application development information
IBM® Domino® Designer is designed to work with IBM Bluemix™, the cloud-based application development environment to create XPages applications. This section of this guide's Bluemix/Designer information provides additional details on application development features not covered in the other Bluemix/Designer related sections.

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.
- 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.
  - Previewing and running XPages
    XPages run in Domino® server and Notes® client environments. From Domino Designer, you can preview XPages in both environments.
  - Adding controls
    Controls are visual elements such as edit boxes, buttons, images, and text that allow users to manipulate data on an XPage.
  - Adding controls from the XPages Extension Library
    The XPages Extension Library provides additional controls ready to use. The controls include an application layout object, an improved dialog, pickers, in place forms, Dojo components, dynamic content, and much more. The controls support enhancements to the Domino(r)® templates.
  - Binding and submitting data
    The data store for XPages is Domino®. You can access the data store through Domino forms and views.
  - Adding images, styles, and themes
    You can enhance your design with images, styles, and themes.
  - Responsive web design support in XPages
    The XPages Extension Library supports Bootstrap, a Responsive Web Design (RWD) framework. This support comes in the form of an XPages Responsive Bootstrap plugin that you can use in your XPages applications.
  - Using Domino® Designer with XPages in Bluemix™
    IBM® Domino® Designer is designed to work with IBM Bluemix™, the cloud-based application development environment.
    - Overview of XPages in Bluemix™
      XPages technology is now available from Bluemix™ in an effort to bring the IBM® Domino® programming model to applications created in Bluemix.
    - Bluemix™ Features available in Domino® Designer
      XPages technology is now available in Bluemix™ in an effort to bring the IBM® Domino® programming model to applications created in Bluemix. Functionality and tooling is available in Domino Designer to provide the infrastructure needed to modify, configure, and deploy XPages applications to and from Bluemix.
    - Customizing XPages applications using Bluemix and Domino Designer
      Application developers can use both Bluemix™ and Domino® Designer as companion tools for creating XPages applications.
    - Additional Bluemix™ and Designer application development information
      IBM® Domino® Designer is designed to work with IBM Bluemix™, the cloud-based application development environment to create XPages applications. This section of this guide's Bluemix/Designer information provides additional details on application development features not covered in the other Bluemix/Designer related sections.
      - Using REST services to connect to other runtimes
        The XPages NoSQL Database service supports the IBM® XPages for Bluemix™ runtime but it can also connect and work with other runtimes.
      - Bluemix application development using the bluemixContext object
        To aid in the development of XPages applications running on Bluemix™, a bluemixContext global object is provided.
      - Using the IBM XPages for Bluemix runtime environment variables
        Environment variables are used in Bluemix™ to provide information about applications, services, and the Bluemix environment itself.
- 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.

Additional Bluemix™ and Designer application development information

IBM® Domino® Designer is designed to work with IBM® Bluemix™, the cloud-based application development environment to create XPages applications. This section of this guide's Bluemix/Designer information provides additional details on application development features not covered in the other Bluemix/Designer related sections.

Bluemix™ is an implementation of IBM's Open Cloud Architecture, based on Cloud Foundry, that lets you create, deploy, and manage your cloud applications. Because Bluemix™ is based on Cloud Foundry, you can use a varied collection of runtime frameworks and services - which now include a runtime and service that takes advantage of XPages technology and works with Domino® Designer.

Bluemix™ provides a dashboard for you to create, view, and manage your cloud-based XPages applications and services as well as monitor your application's resource usage. The Bluemix™ dashboard also provides the ability to manage organizations, spaces, and user access.

This section of this guide's Bluemix/Designer information provides additional details on application development features not covered in the other Bluemix/Designer related sections.