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HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
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.
Binding and submitting data
The data store for XPages is Domino®. You can access the data store through Domino forms and views.
Document encryption and decryption in Domino® using XPages
Domino® lets documents be encrypted on the web using XPages.

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.
- 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.
  - 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.
    - Defining data sources
      An XPage can contain data sources based on Domino® forms and views.
    - Binding data elements
      XPages controls can be bound to elements of data sources.
    - Submitting and retrieving data
      Bound data items can be submitted to their data sources as new and replacement documents.
    - Document encryption and decryption in Domino® using XPages
      Domino® lets documents be encrypted on the web using XPages.
      - A detailed look at document encryption and decryption process for XPages in Domino®
        Domino® lets documents be encrypted on the web using XPages. Let's look at the details of how this can be done
      - Sample Secret Key Picker control markup
        To better understand how the Secret Key Picker control works with encrypting and decrypting XPages, let's look at some sample markup.
      - Accessing the ID Vault
        The encryption and decryption of documents using XPages requires access to the ID Vault.
      - Using the dominoIDVaultBean (Java™ - XPages managed) to access the Domino® ID Vault
        The dominoIDVaultBean is an object used to maintain the information needed to access the Domino® ID Vault.
    - Relational Database Management (RDBMS) Support using XPages
      When using XPages with the Relational Database Management Support (RDBMS) feature (found in the Extension Library as a plugin), you can directly connect to any relational database that supports a JDBC driver.
  - 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.
- 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.

Document encryption and decryption in Domino® using XPages

Domino® lets documents be encrypted on the web using XPages.

Domino® also lets documents be encrypted on the web using XPages. Formerly, the secret key encryption feature had only been available in the Notes® client. The reason for this restriction was that the secret keys used by the encryption process are stored are stored in a user’s ID file and were not accessible to web-based applications - until the introduction of the Notes®/Domino® ID Vault .

XPage encryption and decryption prerequisites

Secret key encryption in XPages is designed to emulate the underlying model provided in the Notes® client, with all the same rules and restrictions applied. Any Notes® client applications that employed the secret key encryption feature in the Notes® client are now be eligible to run as XPages applications on the web. The prerequisites required for this to work are as follows:

Domino® ID Vault - Your Domino® server configuration must be configured to use the ID Vault so that XPages can access the secret keys stored in the id files located within.
Domino® Server Security: - Your Domino® server security document needs to have the “Sign or run unrestricted methods and operations" privilege enabled for all users and/or groups that will encrypt documents in XPages. This preference is located Security tab of the appropriate server document.

Note: Refer to the Notes and Domino Encryption section of the Domino Designer Basic User Guide to gain a better understanding the underlying model of encryption and decryption in Domino.