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Opens a browser window into PhixFlow's online support desk. Your designated support contacts will have login details. | |||||||||
Opens a new email window. | |||||||||
Shows general information about PhixFlow, in particular the current version that you are using. | |||||||||
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| Returns PhixFlow to the startup screen so that the user must log back in to resume work. |
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The status bar is at the bottom of the PhixFlow window. On the left the number of currently running actions is shown. There is also the button to show/hide the windows bar. If there are any notifications on screen, they can all be dismissed in one go by clicking 'Dismiss notifications'. This will dismiss the green notification pop ups but not red error/failure messages.
On the right are icons which can be used to access different features:
Show the System Console. This shows currently running tasks and log messages from processes run in PhixFlow. | |
Open Using the Repository Browser. This shows all of the available objects in your PhixFlow instance. | |
Administration Menu. Options to Import Configuration, Export Full Configuration or Open Export Pane | |
Switch between App Mode and Design Mode |
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The Windows bar appears in the bottom of the screen if 'Show Windows Bar' is selected from the footer bar. The Windows bar contains links to all open windows (both open and minimised). Click on a link to restore the window (if needed) and bring the window to the front of the screen. Each window link also has a context menu which allows you to close it directly.
Administration Menu
On the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen is the
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Model Toolbar
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When you open the settings for a model or one of its modelling objects, the settings tab has a toolbar at the top.
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| Find in Explorer. This icon will bring the repository browser tab to the front and will close all nodes except those leading to this object. You may need to scroll the explorer to see the selected object. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If there is insufficient space on the header bar then some buttons are moved into this drop-down menu. The following options are always on the drop-down menu:
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Note that the Audit trail is a useful way of reversing changes made by mistake as each audit entry shows both the new and old values. In the case of text fields, simply copy the old value and paste it into the form field.
Settings Section Toolbars
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Some sections contain fields whereas other sections can contain grids. Sections which contain grids may have a number of icons on them to allow you to add and delete records, see a more detailed grid with more columns or refresh the current grid.
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| Refresh the list (e.g. if the list has been updated on another computer by another user). | |||||||||
| Create and insert a new item into the list. |
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The Windows bar appears in the bottom of the screen if 'Show Windows Bar' is selected from the footer bar. The Windows bar contains links to all open windows (both open and minimised). Click on a link to restore the window (if needed) and bring the window to the front of the screen. Each window link also has a context menu which allows you to close it directly.
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The task bar is at the bottom of the PhixFlow window. On the left the number of currently running actions is shown. There is also the button to show/hide the windows bar. If there are any notifications on screen, they can all be dismissed in one go by clicking 'Dismiss notifications'. This will dismiss the green notification pop ups but not red error/failure messages.
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Note that all objects that appear on Analysis Models have a context menu entry "Show Models" which will display a list of all the models that contain that object.
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Open the help page for the form.
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Note that the Audit trail is a useful way of reversing changes made by mistake as each audit entry shows both the new and old values. In the case of text fields, simply copy the old value and paste it into the form field.
Object Lists
Many forms include lists of objects that are associated with the object edited by that form. E.g. the list of stream attributes belonging to a stream.
Object lists have the following buttons:
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Add a child object to the object being edited. E.g. add a stream attribute to a stream.
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There are two types of grid display. The first are simply lists of the configuration objects but showing more details than the repository explorer. The second type of grid shows data e.g. Stream Items. The operations on configuration object grids are all very similar (e.g. add, delete, refresh etc.) however data grids will have additional operations which are all described on the help page for that object.
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