Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

The Domino Designer Application and Design Environment

There are several ways to open the Domino Designer, but the easiest is to select a database you want to design from the Workspace and right-click it, which displays a pop-up menu. Then select Open in Designer, which opens the Domino Designer (also called the Designer for short) as shown earlier in Figure 6.1.

There are two basic “panes” within the Domino Designer window: the Design Pane and the Work Pane. The Design Pane maintains a list of databases that have recently been opened in the Designer, as well as the design elements they contain. The design elements are grouped by type. For example, you could select Forms to see all the forms in the database. This function is new to 6 and enables ...