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HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
Application Management
Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
Deploying an application
The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and DominoTMsystem administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino® system administration.
Copying a new database to a server

HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
- What's new in HCL Domino Designer 12?
  The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 12.
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Application Design
  Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Application Management
  Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
  - Security in an application
    Domino® offers a multi-layered approach to security. Server administrators can secure databases, servers, and domains. Database designers and managers control the following:
  - Completing an application and managing design changes
    As you prepare to deploy an application, consider these finishing touches:
  - Deploying an application
    The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and DominoTMsystem administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino® system administration.
    - Rolling out a database
      As you roll out your application, you need to work closely with your Domino® server administrator to organize your application on a server and perform a set of administrative tasks. The following tables list the mandatory and optional tasks that the Domino administrator performs to put a database into production. You must have Manager access in a database access control list (ACL) to perform these tasks.
    - Copying a new database to a server
    - Setting up replication for an application
      As you prepare to deploy an application, you must work with your Domino® server administrator to create a replication plan. Replication allows replica copies of databases to exchange updates. You can replicate both design elements and database content between replica copies. Replication can be unidirectional -- for example you can push out design changes but not receive any, or it can be directional, in which cases changes are both sent and received. Generally you perform design work on one copy of a database -- for example, you might keep a copy on your local hard drive -- then you replicate design changes to database replicas on servers.
    - Creating one replica manually
      These steps create one replica of a database.
    - Replication settings
      By default, two replicas exchange all edits, additions, and deletions if the servers the replicas are on have the necessary access. However, you can customize replication. For example, to save disk space, you can prevent the transfer of irrelevant documents. Using replication settings, you can:
    - Disabling and enabling replication of a database
    - Forcing a server database to replicate
  - Procedure for optimizing and troubleshooting databases
- Domino® Query Language
  Domino® Query Language (DQL) is a facility running on a Domino server that provides a terse, shorthand syntax for finding documents. It supports a wide variety and complexity of search terms. It leverages existing design elements, avoiding the need to write detailed code to access them. DQL consolidates all methods in Domino for searching document contents.
- Composite Applications - Design and Management
  Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. The ability to create and edit composite applications lets you easily integrate different types of components and technologies.
- DB2® Access views
  Domino® Designer includes two types of design elements to assist you in managing data contained in DB2® enabled Notes® databases:
- Programming Overview and User Interface
  This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
- Formula Language
  This section documents the formula language.
- LotusScript® Language
  Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.
- LotusScript/COM/OLE Classes
- Java/CORBA Classes
  This section documents the Java/CORBA classes.
- Connectors
  Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
- Javadoc™ for Domino® Designer related APIs
  As part of providing additional Java™ reference documentation, Domino® Designer ships with a help plugin that contains Javadoc™ for additional Domino Designer related APIs.

Copying a new database to a server

About this task

Plan the deployment of new databases before you copy them to a server. Tasks to plan with your server administrator include:

Set up Server documents in the Domino® Directory, including a Mail-In Database document if the database is designed to receive mail.
Make sure that users and other servers are listed in the server's access control list.
Group related databases in subdirectories rather than copy them to the root directory so that users can find related databases more easily. This grouping also helps administrators to replicate "like" databases, because Connection documents let you replicate according to directory.

For more information on replication and server documents, see Domino® Administrator Help.

To copy a new database to a server

Procedure

Make sure that you have Manager access in the database ACL or the "Create new databases" privilege in the Server Access section of the Server Document in the Domino® Directory.
Select the database icon from your bookmarks page. Choose File - Application - Properties, click the Design tab, and make sure that "Show in 'Open Database' dialog" is selected.
Choose File - Application - New Copy.
Next to Server, click the arrow to display a list of servers. Then select the server on which you want to place the copy.
Next to Title, enter a title for the database. The database icon and the Open Database dialog box display this title.
Next to File Name, enter the path and file name of the database. Limit the file name to eight characters plus the NSF extension.
Choose one:
- "Database design and documents" to copy the database design and all documents.
- "Database design only" if you do not want to copy any pre-existing documents.
Optional: Optional steps:
- Choose "Access Control List" to copy the ACL.
- Select "Create Full Text index" to create a full-text index on the new copy.
- Choose Encryption to encrypt the new copy of the database.
- To allow a database to grow beyond the default 1GB limit, click "Size Limit," select a size, and click OK. This option applies only to Release 4 format databases.
  Note: The maximum size for a Release 4 database is 4GB. The maximum size for Release 5 and later databases is 64GB on Windows™ and UNIX™.

Results

For more information on encryption, see Notes® and Domino® encryption .