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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.
Getting information
The immediate resource for getting information is the installed help system.
Setting a search scope
A search scope limits the help topics that are searched.

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.
  - Understanding XPages
    An XPages application is XML interpreted by a Domino® server or Notes® client and rendered in a web browser or a Notes client. You can interact with controls on the page to send requests to the server.
  - Forms and views
    In Domino®, a form defines how documents are displayed to the user and how the form's data items are stored. A view reports documents in columns and rows.
  - Navigation in Domino® Designer
    HCL Domino® Designer is installed as Eclipse perspectives arranged into easy-to-access views, palettes, and editors. You can perform tasks using the main menu, right-click menus, and icons in the view, palette, and editor title bars.
  - Getting information
    The immediate resource for getting information is the installed help system.
    - Setting a search scope
      A search scope limits the help topics that are searched.
  - Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
    HCL Domino® Designer provides some assistive aids to those with restricted mobility or limited vision.
- 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.
- 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.

Setting a search scope

A search scope limits the help topics that are searched.

About this task

By default, a search applies to all topics in the help. Take the following steps to create a named scope that limits a search to specified topics.

Procedure

On the search window, click Search scope.
In the Select Search Scope dialog, select Search only the following topics and click New.
In the New Search List dialog, enter a name for the search.
Check the parts of help that you want to search. You can check topics at the starting level and one level below.
Click OK to save the scope and close the New Search List dialog.
The new scope appears in the list of scopes when Search only the following topics is selected.
You can create another scope.
You can edit or remove a selected scope.
Click OK to close the Select Search Scope dialog.
The scope that is in effect appears next to Search scope. To change scope:
1. Click Search scope to open the Select Search Scope dialog.
2. Select Search only the following topics then select a scope, or select Search all topics.
3. Click OK.

Example

For example, to create a search scope for only Domino® Designer topics: in the

New
Search List

dialog, name the scope Designer and check all the top-level topics that begin with

Lotus Domino
Designer

.