Domino Designer 6: A Developer’s Handbook

6.1. Design elements defined

In the following sections we explain view, folders and navigator design elements.

6.1.1. What is a view

A view lists the documents stored in a Domino database and can be thought of as a “table of contents” of a database. Each row listed in a view represents data taken from a single document. Each column represents a field or a combination of fields taken from that document; see Figure 6-1 on page 185.

Figure 6-1. View sample

All Domino databases have at least one view, but most of them have more. A view can display all the documents in the database, or it can display a subset of the documents. Documents can be ...