Restoring Domino Designer...Including Working Sets

By Paul Withers / 15th August 2013 / 4 Comments

Since 8.5.0 I’ve been searching for everything that needs to be done to restore Domino Designer. Some time ago I blogged about exporting and importing Domino Designer preferences but I had always struggled to work out which files / folders were required for Working Sets.

Today I decided to do a clean install and finally managed to track down all the relevant folders to have working sets installed in a few seconds. All are in the <Data>workspace folder

workspace stores all the relevant folders for servers and applications you’ve accessed
workspace.metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.ui.workbench has settings for various dialogs, plus the critical file workingsets.xml. This looks like it has the configuration for the working sets themselves and points to paths of relevant files. I copied the whole folder.
workspace.metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.core.resources has the projects referenced in the workingsets.xml. The whole folder is required. The .location files in each project point to the location using a URI relative to JNSF, which I suspect is the workspace folder
workspace.metadata.pluginscom.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources has a file that maps the projects to the actual servers

Copy those into a clean install, and you have “working” working sets in a few seconds.

I then chose to manually install all the additional plugins, but those appear to be in workspace.configorg.eclipse.update. To get the list of locations I had previously used in Domino Designer, I just copied a backup of bookmark.xml into that folder.

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Paul Withers

Paul Withers is an IBM Lifetime Champion, has been an OpenNTF Board Member since 2013, has worked with Domino since R4.5, XPages since 2009, co-authored XPages Extension Library and was technical editor for Mastering XPages 2nd Edition. He is one of the developers on OpenNTF Domino API as well as contributor to a variety of other OpenNTF projects. For full bio, see https://paulswithers.github.io/professional/

4 thoughts on “Restoring Domino Designer…Including Working Sets”

Tony Austin
22nd August 2013 at 12:37 am

Nice tip, thanks Paul.

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Mark Leusink
30th October 2013 at 8:16 am

This tip is at the time of writing once again very relevant. Thanks for that!

Just did a clean install of 9.0.1 and just copied the entire workspace folder to the new dominodata folder. One thing to look out for: do NOT copy the .rcp.lock and .rcp.main files. It will cause crashes and strange error messages when you start the client/ designer.

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1. paulwithers
  30th October 2013 at 8:40 am
  
  Good tip. I also did a fresh install and replace yesterday (personally I think that will be my default from now on). I got crashes, but those were resolved when I deleted org.eclipse.update (the plugins). I suspect something else might be needed as well.
  
  Also, don’t try to copy workingsets.xml in when Notes or Designer is open: it just overwrites the file again! Close both down, then copy, and it’s fine.
  
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Scott Horwood
22nd February 2015 at 10:09 pm

Excellent tip. Thanks so much!

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