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IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
Application Management
Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
Security in an application
Domino® offers a multi-layered approach to security. Server administrators can secure databases, servers, and domains. Database designers and managers control the following:
Notes® and Domino® encryption
Encryption is a digital security mechanism that protects data from unauthorized access. Encryption protects data from unauthorized access. Using Notes® and Domino®, you can encrypt:
Merging secret encryption keys

IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
- Application Design
  Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Domino® Designer templates
  The templates described in the following table are available with Domino® Designer and are specifically intended for use by application developers.
- Importing to and exporting from views
- Developing applications using MAPI
  Domino® Designer Release 6 and later supports the messaging application program interface (MAPI), which allows mail integration between Domino and a MAPI-compliant messaging application, such as Microsoft™ Outlook, Microsoft Office applications, or user-written C++ programs.
- Features to avoid using in Web applications
  Developers creating applications specifically for the Web, or for the dual purpose of serving Notes® and Web clients, should review the following tables for features that are not supported on the Web.
- URL commands for Web applications
  You have a variety of options for programming a Web site. You can directly manipulate objects such as documents or views in an application using Domino® URL commands. Adding Domino URL commands as HTML in forms gives users shortcuts for navigating databases and performing other tasks quickly.
- Application Management
  Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
  - Security in an application
    Domino® offers a multi-layered approach to security. Server administrators can secure databases, servers, and domains. Database designers and managers control the following:
    - The database access control list
    - Application design element security
      An application developer can restrict access to design elements within an application. Application design security takes effect when users gain access to an application.
    - Notes® and Domino® encryption
      Encryption is a digital security mechanism that protects data from unauthorized access. Encryption protects data from unauthorized access. Using Notes® and Domino®, you can encrypt:
      - Database encryption
        Database encryption is designed to prevent unauthorized access to locally stored databases and is not intended as a replacement for field-level encryption. Database encryption provides an additional layer of security because ACL settings do not protect locally stored databases.
      - To encrypt a database
      - Encrypting documents and fields
        A document is considered to be encrypted if it is created from a form that contains one or more encrypted fields. Each encrypted field is linked to a key that encrypts the contents of the field. An encryption key can be secret -- that is, a key that you must send to users in order for them to decrypt a field -- or public -- that is, a key that is already in a user's ID file and in the user's Person document where it is publicly available.
      - Procedural overview: encrypting documents
      - Enabling encryption for a field
        You can enable encryption for more than one field in a form. The field can be any data type.
      - Creating secret encryption keys
      - Distributing secret encryption keys
      - Merging secret encryption keys
      - To create a field that maintains a list of secret encryption keys
      - Managing encrypted information
        As you consider what type of encryption you need in your application, keep the following in mind:
      - To encrypt all documents automatically
      - Using electronic signatures in Notes® applications
      - Attaching signatures to documents
  - Completing an application and managing design changes
    As you prepare to deploy an application, consider these finishing touches:
  - Deploying an application
    The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and DominoTMsystem administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino® system administration.
  - Procedure for optimizing and troubleshooting databases
- 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.
- Lotus® Connectors
  Lotus® 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.
- 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.

Merging secret encryption keys

About this task

If a database has a secret encryption key, you must merge the key with your user ID so that you can distribute the key to users. After users receive the key from you, they merge the encryption key with their user IDs so that they have access to encrypted fields.

To merge an encryption key received by e-mail

Procedure

Open the mail message containing the attached encryption key.
Choose Actions - Accept Encryption.
Enter your password, and then click OK.
Optional: Type comments to describe the encryption key -- for example, type the name of the database and field in which the encryption key is used.
Click Accept.

To merge an encryption key received as a file

Procedure

From your Bookmark page, select File - Security - User Security.
Enter your Notes® password.
Click Notes® Data - Documents, and then click Other Actions - Import Secret Key.
Select the directory, specify the name of file containing the encryption key, and then click OK or Open.
If prompted to do so, enter the password associated with the file, and then click OK.
Click Accept.