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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.
Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
HCL Domino® Designer provides some assistive aids to those with restricted mobility or limited vision.

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.
  - 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
    HCL 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.
  - Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
    HCL 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
  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.

Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts

HCL Domino® Designer provides some assistive aids to those with restricted mobility or limited vision.

Domino® Designer provides some assistive aids to those with restricted mobility or limited vision.

Specifically, Domino® Designer provides

Keyboard shortcuts that let you navigate through and perform a variety of tasks in Domino® Designer.
Extended accelerator keys that let you navigate through the Bookmark bar and window tabs using your keyboard. You must enable extended accelerator keys before you can use them.

For more information, see the Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts section of the Domino® Designer Basic User Guide and Reference in the product help system. There you will find a variety of topics on task-related keyboard shortcuts.

Additional information can also be found in the Customizing Notes® for Accessibility topic in the Notes® Help.