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HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
Administering applications
HCL Domino Designer provides features for administering and managing your work and related files while developing your application projects.
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.

HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
- Product overview
  HCL Domino® Designer supports applications development for the HCL Domino platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.
- Tutorials
  This section contains tutorials and information about tutorials.
- Administering applications
  HCL 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.
  - 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.
    - Using the single command method for command line building
      The single command method is one method you can use for command line building in Designer.
    - Using the command file method for command line building
      The command file method is another method you can use for command line building in Designer.
- Designing XPages applications
  HCL 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.

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.

To use this feature, it is not necessary to import source repositories into the Designer application to build the NSF/NTF files. This feature is provided to help support team-based application development using Domino® Designer.

To enable this functionality in Domino® Designer, you need to add the following line to your NOTES.INI file:

DESIGNER_AUTO_ENABLED=true

A command line build can be run in two different ways

using the single command method
using the command file method

The rest of this section provides details on how to use each of these methods.