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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.
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.

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.
    - 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.
  - 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.

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.

The 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 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.