Our Notes 8.5 problems, described in the last blog posting, with

NotesUIWorkspace.IsInCompositeApp
and
NotesUIWorkspace.GetComponentViewPreference(...)

seem to be fixed. You just have to define the property

"com.ibm.notes.enable.preferences = true"

at page level in the Composite Application. Then Lotusscript "knows" that it's running inside a CA component.

It was more a documentation issue, because it's not mentioned in the Designer's online help.
However, it's here in the wiki:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/compappwiki.nsf/revisions/AA7A9FFD70CA64F985257456005401D8?OpenDocument

The wiki is the new online help ;-)

Maybe a MindPlan wiki would be good as well...