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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.
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.
Design editor
The Design editor is where you edit XPages and other design elements, and view lists of design elements.

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.
    - Design elements and the Applications Navigator
      Available design elements are displayed by the Applications Navigator.
    - Design editor
      The Design editor is where you edit XPages and other design elements, and view lists of design elements.
    - Source editor
      Use the Source editor to directly edit XPages source code.
    - Palettes and views
      Palettes and views provide the tools for working with the design elements.
    - Setting Domino Designer user preferences
      You can customize Domino Designer so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to.
  - Getting information
    The immediate resource for getting information is the installed help system.
  - 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.

Design editor

The Design editor is where you edit XPages and other design elements, and view lists of design elements.

The Properties view shows the properties for the current selection in the editor. For example, if you are working with a user interface (UI) control in an XPage, as soon as you click that UI control in the XPages editor, the Properties view displays the properties for that UI control.

You can do the following tasks in the editor:


Task	Action
Open a design element or list	Select the design element or list in the Applications Navigator. Double-click it or click File > Open.
Switch between open design elements and lists	Click the tab of the design element or list that you want to view.
Close a design element or list	Click the Close icon (an X) on the design element or list tab, or select the tab and click File > Close.
Close all design elements and lists including the current one	Click File > Close All. You can also right-click a tab and select Close All.
Maximize the editor	Click the Maximize icon or double-click the tab.
Restore the editor to its original size and location	Click the Restore icon or double-click the tab. This function is enabled only if you have maximized the editor.
Resize the editor with keyboard arrows	Right-click the tab and select Size then Left, Right, Top, or Bottom to highlight an edge of the editor. Press the appropriate keyboard arrow to expand or contract the editor.