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Designer XPages User Guide
Product overview
IBM® Domino® Designer supports applications development for the IBM Domino platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.
Navigation in Domino® Designer
IBM® 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.
Setting Domino Designer user preferences
You can customize Domino Designer so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to.

Designer XPages User Guide
- Welcome to the IBM Domino Designer 9.0.1 XPages User Guide
  Welcome to the IBM Domino Designer 9.0.1 XPages User Guide, where you can find information about how to use Domino Designer to rapidly develop and deploy scalable, security-rich business and collaboration applications. This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
- Product overview
  IBM® Domino® Designer supports applications development for the IBM 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
    IBM® 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.
      - Setting general Domino Designer user preferences
        You can customize many of the general settings of Domino® Designer so that the tool functions the way you that want.
      - Setting Domino Designer Application Navigator preferences
        You can customize the Designer Application Navigator display preferences to display only the design elements that you wish.
      - Setting IBM Bluemix preferences
        A preference panel has been added where you define the Bluemix™ Server connection when using Designer with Bluemix.
      - Setting Domino Designer Java Editor user preferences
        You can customize the settings of the Java™ Editor in Domino® Designer so that it runs the way you want it to.
      - Setting Domino Designer LotusScript Editor user preferences
        You can customize many of the settings of the LotusScript® Editor in Domino® Designer so that it functions the way you want it to.
      - Setting Domino Designer Source Control user preferences
        You can customize Domino Designer source control features to make your application development process and source control tasks more efficient.
      - Setting Domino Designer XPages user preferences
        You can modify XPages settings in Domino® Designer so that you can use this unique design element in custom ways in your application development.
  - Getting information
    The immediate resource for getting information is the installed help system. Other resources include an information center, a Domino® Designer wiki, and articles on various web sites.
  - Copyright
  - Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
    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
  IBM® Domino® Designer provides features for administering and managing your work and related files while developing your application projects.
- Designing XPages applications
  IBM® 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 Domino Designer user preferences

You can customize Domino Designer so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to.

You can set many preferences for Domino Designer in the Preferences dialog box, by choosing File >Preferences >Domino Designer. Areas where you can directly customize Domino Designer are:

Applications Navigator
IBM Bluemix
Java Editor
LotusScript Editor (including Code Templates, Comment Templates, Fonts and Colors)
Source Control
XPages (including Extension Library)

Be aware that some of the Preferences you set will not take effect until the next time you start Designer. In this case, Designer shows a warning message when you modify one of the preferences that requires restart.

You can also set preferences for the Notes client including areas such as the Toolbar, Calendar, To Do, Mail, your Personal Address Book, and the Status Bar. Refer to the appropriate section in the Notes client Help to learn more about setting preferences in those areas of Notes.