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HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
Tutorials
This section contains tutorials and information about tutorials.
XPages Site Finder tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the ease with which you can create a Web application in HCL Domino® Designer using XPage elements. Using this tutorial you create and preview three XPages. You place controls on the XPages for accessing and viewing data, navigating to other pages, refreshing the same page, and performing other actions. You will even use JavaScript™.
Creating controls to add and delete documents
The SiteList XPage lets you see and edit documents in the application, but we need to add controls to create and delete documents.

HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
- Product overview
  HCL Domino® Designer supports applications development for the HCL Domino platform using XPages, forms, views, and other elements such as controls.
- Tutorials
  This section contains tutorials and information about tutorials.
  - XPages Site Finder tutorial
    This tutorial demonstrates the ease with which you can create a Web application in HCL Domino® Designer using XPage elements. Using this tutorial you create and preview three XPages. You place controls on the XPages for accessing and viewing data, navigating to other pages, refreshing the same page, and performing other actions. You will even use JavaScript™.
    - Setting up the sample application
      During the course of the tutorial, you create three XPages named Site, SiteFinder, and SiteList. When you first open the sample application, you see existing XPages with similar names. Three of them are final solutions and are named SiteFinal, SiteFinderFinal, and SiteListFinal. Two of them are intermediate solutions and are named Site1 and SiteList1.
    - Creating an XPage
      This lesson teaches you how to create a basic XPage.
    - Adding a view control
      An XPage view control is used to display information from a defined view. The control that you create in this lesson lets you display data from the SiteList view.
    - Creating an XPage for editing
      Forms can also be used to design Web pages, but XPages allow more UI options and greater control of appearance with less effort. It's helpful to also have a form to provide a list of fields for binding data. Also the form can be used to calculate computed fields with field formulas rather than putting code on the XPage.
    - Creating controls to add and delete documents
      The SiteList XPage lets you see and edit documents in the application, but we need to add controls to create and delete documents.
    - Creating an XPage for searching
      The user uses this page to specify search parameters and see the results. The search parameters are values for the city, state, country, and zip code. The user can fill in any of these parameters and click a button. The page is refreshed and results are displayed as a view. A search property for the view limits the display to documents that match the search parameters.
- Administering applications
  HCL Domino Designer provides features for administering and managing your work and related files while developing your application projects.
- Designing XPages applications
  HCL 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.

Creating controls to add and delete documents

The SiteList XPage lets you see and edit documents in the application, but we need to add controls to create and delete documents.

About this task

Do the following:

Procedure

On the SiteList XPage, click inside the first column (the column, not the header) so it is in focus.
Under Properties, click Display.
Check Check box.
This puts a check box at the front of each row. The user can select a row by checking a box.
On the XPage, click at the ending of the title and press Enter to put a blank line between the title and the view control.
If you don't see the list of controls in the right pane, click the Controls tab or click Window > Show Eclipse Views > Controls.
Drag a Button control onto the empty line under the title and do the following:
1. Under Properties on the bottom pane, click Button if it is not already in focus.
2. Change the label to New Site.
3. Click the Events tab.
4. Ensure that the onClick event is selected.
5. Click Add Action.
  The Add Simple Action dialog box opens. The category should read All and the action Open Page. Adjust if this is not so.
6. Select Site for the name of the page to open.
7. Select New Document for the target document.
The dialog box should look like this.
Click OK.
Drag a second Button control alongside the first and do the following:
1. On the bottom pane, click the Properties tab and click Button if it is not already in focus.
2. Change the label to Delete Selected.
3. Click the Events tab.
4. Ensure that onclick is selected.
5. Click Add Action.
6. Select Document for the category.
7. Select Delete Selected Documents for the action.
8. Select viewPanel1 for the view name.
  If this is not the name of your view control, select your view control.
9. Type Do you really want to delete the checked sites? for the confirmation text.
The dialog box should look like this.
Click OK.
Press Ctrl+S to save the page.
Preview the page as desired.
Close the SiteList XPage by clicking the X at the upper right of the center pane.

Results

At this point, your XPage should be similar to SiteListFinal which you can open for comparison.