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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.
What's new in Domino Designer 14.5?
The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 14.5.
What's new in 14.5 Early Access Drop 1?
Learn about the new features and enhancements in HCL Domino Designer® 14.5 Early Access Drop 1.
General updates
HCL Domino Designer 14.5 EAP Drop 1 provides the following enhancements:

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 14.5?
  The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 14.5.
  - What's new in 14.5 Early Access Drop 1?
    Learn about the new features and enhancements in HCL Domino Designer® 14.5 Early Access Drop 1.
    - General updates
      HCL Domino Designer 14.5 EAP Drop 1 provides the following enhancements:
- 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.
- 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.

General updates

HCL Domino Designer 14.5 EAP Drop 1 provides the following enhancements:

Ckeditor replaced

Ckeditor 4 for Designer/Xpages has been replaced with TinyMCE 6.7. For more information on TinyMCE, see TinyMCE 6 Documentation.

JVM upgrade

JVM has been upgraded to the following version of Java 21 LTS release:

openjdk version "21.0.3" 2024-04-16 LTS
IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition 21.0.3.0 (build 21.0.3+9-LTS)
Eclipse OpenJ9 VM 21.0.3.0 (build openj9-0.44.0, JRE 21 Windows 10 amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20240416_179 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9   - b0699311c7
OMR      - 254af5a04
JCL      - ac8f341bc20 based on jdk-21.0.3+9)

Eclipse upgrade

Standard Notes, Domino Administrator, Domino Designer, and XPages are upgraded from Eclipse 4.22 to 4.30.

'Stop running agent on this date' option rephrased

In a scheduled agent with an interval of more than once a day, daily, weekly, and monthly, users can define the date they want it to stop running in the 'Stop running agent on this date' option. This option is now rephrased to 'Stop running agent after this date'.