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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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

The IBM® Domino® Designer perspectives are as follows:

Domino Designer shows all design elements in the Applications Navigator and is the default perspective.
XPages excludes design elements not needed for XPages development.
Forms/Views excludes design elements only needed for XPages development.

To change perspectives, click Window > Open Perspective.

To adjust the content of the perspectives, go to File > Preferences > Domino Designer > Applications Navigator.

Because the IBM® Domino® Designer perspectives are defined by Eclipse conventions, you can move, resize, close, and open views. To save your new arrangement as a new perspective with a name you choose, select Window > Save Perspective As in the menu bar.

You can also navigate through views using the default Eclipse keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F7 or by clicking Window > Navigation in the Eclipse main menu.

To see any view that is hidden, click Window > Show Eclipse Views in the main Eclipse menu, and select the hidden view from the list.