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HCL Domino Designer XPages User Guide
This guide focuses on the aspects of creating applications using XPages technology.
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.
Adding images, styles, and themes
You can enhance your design with images, styles, and themes.
Designing with themes in XPages
A theme is used to define the look and feel of an application.

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.
- 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.
  - Previewing and running XPages
    XPages run in Domino® server and Notes® client environments. From Domino Designer, you can preview XPages in both environments.
  - Adding controls
    Controls are visual elements such as edit boxes, buttons, images, and text that allow users to manipulate data on an XPage.
  - Adding controls from the XPages Extension Library
    The XPages Extension Library provides additional controls ready to use. The controls include an application layout object, an improved dialog, pickers, in place forms, Dojo components, dynamic content, and much more. The controls support enhancements to the Domino(r)® templates.
  - Binding and submitting data
    The data store for XPages is Domino®. You can access the data store through Domino forms and views.
  - Adding images, styles, and themes
    You can enhance your design with images, styles, and themes.
    - Designing with images in XPages
      XPages use the image resources within your application for image control and other image settings. As such, working with images in XPages is actually working with image resources. Also, when you want to designate an area for an image but do not have a copy of the image yet, you can create a image placeholder and add the image later. In most locations, an image property of an XPage control can be computed so that the image can be determined at runtime. You can import images from your local machine, add them to XPages and custom controls, and copy them in one application and paste them into another application. You can delete and rename images in applications. Finally, you can also choose a PNG, GIF, JPEG, or BMP file to use as a high quality application icon image for your applications or you can use the classic "16 color" images.
    - Adding styles in XPages
      If you want to override the default styles provided with the target platform, you can create new styles or import existing styles from your local file system. You can add style sheets to applications and then add them to the XPages within the applications. You can also create custom formatting, export it to a style sheet as a class, and then reuse it across multiple XPages and controls.
    - Designing with themes in XPages
      A theme is used to define the look and feel of an application.
      - Creating a theme resource
        Create new themes and add them to applications.
      - Editing a theme resource
        Edit an existing theme in the Database Resources.
  - Responsive web design support in XPages
    The XPages Extension Library supports Bootstrap, a Responsive Web Design (RWD) framework. This support comes in the form of an XPages Responsive Bootstrap plugin that you can use in your XPages applications.
- 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.

Designing with themes in XPages

A theme is used to define the look and feel of an application.

Themes are server-side customization of HTML generation that can be used to define the look and feel of an application. A theme can be set globally, to apply to all applications run on that server, or applied to a single application. Different themes can also be applied depending on context.

Themes are different from Style Sheets in that they are not restricted to CSS styles. A theme can assign values to any XML property, including such functional properties as the number of rows displayed by a view. Themes can assign values of JSF expressions, which will be interpreted when a page is created as if that expression was in the source.

Themes can be used to control all XML properties of an XPage. Themes can also control all CSS style properties and the body style attribute for web pages served by Domino®. The same theme can be customized to target the XPages and Domino® Web environment with different properties.

Themes are one of the design elements available from the Applications Navigator. The Applications Navigator is the left hand tab shown in the user interface. Themes are available under the Resources design element.

Note: Starting with Designer 8.5.2, XPages supports an upgraded theme library named oneuiv2. This release is based on the OneUI v2.0.1 gold release installed with Notes/Domino 8.5.2 which includes numerous CSS, image, and performance enhancements. You should use this theme going forward. The older version - named oneui is retained for backward compatibility.

Note: With Release 9.0.1, XPages now supports a theme the complies with accessibility guidelines and requirements. This theme is named oneuiv2.1_blue.