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HCL Domino Designer User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
Programming Overview and User Interface
This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
Programming Domino for Web Applications
You should be aware of certain procedures, restrictions, and enhancements available to you when using Domino Designer to program Web applications. This section describes the following areas:
Server configuration for Web browsers

HCL Domino Designer User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
- What's new in Domino Designer 14?
  The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 14.
- What's new in Nomad Designer?
  HCL Nomad for web browsers v1.0.10 introduces the capability to design Notes databases. For more information, see HCL Nomad for web browsers User Documentation, Nomad web Designer.
- 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.
- 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.
  - Programming Overview
    This documentation describes how to attach Java, JavaScript, LotusScript, and formula code to Domino design elements. Here are some overview topics:
  - User Interface
  - XML for Domino
    The following topics cover some general guidelines for using XML in Domino applications and list all the elements, attributes, and entities in the Domino Document Type Definition (DTD):
  - JSP Custom Tag Libraries
    A JavaServer Page (JSP) is a HTML Web page that contains code which executes application logic to generate dynamic content. The page is created at the time it is requested. JSP pages are compiled into servlets; the code they contain is executed by the server. For more information on JSPs, see the Sun Microsystems Web site: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/.
  - Programming Domino for Web Applications
    You should be aware of certain procedures, restrictions, and enhancements available to you when using Domino Designer to program Web applications. This section describes the following areas:
    - Formula language
      The formula language works, with restrictions, for Web applications. The formula language is particularly useful for implementing Notes client menu commands as buttons, hotspots, and actions in the browser environment where the Notes client menu is not available. This section describes:
    - Web agents
      Agents cannot run in a browser. They can be activated from a browser but run on the Domino server containing the agent.
    - JavaScript
    - Web services
    - Server configuration for Web browsers
      - Dynamic HTML sections
        The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) used to render collapsable sections for display with Microsoft Internet Explorer has been enhanced and made available for use in other browsers which support DHTML. The enhancement consists of using the <DIV> tag instead of the <SPAN> tag to delimit the sections, and using standard JavaScript rather than IE-specific extensions for manipulating the sections.
    - RSS feeds
    - Domino Web logs (blogs)
- 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.

Server configuration for Web browsers

The Domino administrator is typically responsible for configuring the Domino server for proper rendering of Domino Web applications. However, developers of Web applications should be aware of the possible settings in the browser configuration file that may impact the performance or appearance of their applications.

The browser.cnf file

The browser.cnf file is installed automatically in the server data directory when you install Domino. It contains configuration settings for browsers used to render Domino Web applications. Specifically, this file is used by @BrowserInfo to determine browser properties.

There are two types of directives in this file: Property and Rule. The property directive defines a browser property that can be accessed by @BrowserInfo. The Rule directive specifies a regular expression pattern which is used to match the browser User-Agent header.

Typically, Web application developers will make use of this file to ensure that their applications work properly on the Domino Web server. However, because of the file's location in the server data directory, it is likely that the Domino administrator will need to make any necessary modifications.

The following are browser.cnf settings that modify the behavior of the Web engine's built-in HTML generation:

CSSTableTabs - Boolean indicating whether browser can render CSS rules for table tabs DisableActionBarApplet - Boolean indicating whether browser can handle the ActionBar Applet DisableViewApplet - Boolean indicating whether browser can handle the View Applet DisableOutlineApplet - Boolean indicating whether browser can handle the Outline Applet DisableEditorApplet - Boolean indicating whether browser can handle the Editor Applet DHTMLSections - String indicating whether / how sections should render using client-side DHTML

Language cross-reference

@BrowserInfo