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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.

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.
  - 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.

Product overview

IBM® Domino® Designer supports applications development for the IBM® Domino® platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.

XPage is a rapid application development technology for creating collaborative web-based applications. XPages provides a rich set of user interface and data access controls built on the Java™ Server Faces technology. XPages supports the integration of existing IBM® Notes® and Domino® NSF assets such as documents, views, agents, formulas, and security. These applications can be rendered as dynamic web 2.0 pages both in a browser and in the Notes® client. The development interface provides an intuitive drag-and-drop design environment and an XML source environment. Presentation is controlled through Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and business logic can be developed using JavaScript™.

The Domino® Designer documentation includes:

The Domino® Designer User Guide introduces the product and describes XPages and its supporting elements. This information also describes Domino® Designer features added after version 8.5.
The Domino® Designer XPages Reference describes the JavaScript™ interface to Domino® Objects, simple actions, and other items of programmatic interest in XPages.
The Domino® Designer Basic User Guide and Reference describes the forms-based elements of Domino® Designer including forms, views, formula language, LotusScript®, and more.

This documentation refers to the following products: IBM® Domino®, IBM® Domino® Designer, IBM® Notes®, IBM® iNotes®, and IBM® Notes® Traveler.