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Manage the styling of your forms to give your Manage the styling of your forms to give your application a more aesthetically pleasing style. To recap the steps in the video:

Hide the UID

  1. Go into the configuration form for the grid UIDattribute UID
  2. In Grid Settings set Hidden
  3. Go into the configuration form for the field UID
  4. In Style Settings set tick Hidden

Create an Area to hold action buttons

  1. Right Click click on the lower area pane of the screen, click on Open Palette, then click Basic Components.
  2. Drag the Area onto the form
    1. Note, if you can't see the Area area right click and go to Find in Explorer
  3. Enter the settings
    1. Name: SimpleButtonHolder
    2. Background Colour: #9b9b9b
    3. Position Settings
      • Width: 100%
      • Height: 45px
      • Bottom: 0px
  4. Use Find in Explorer to find the action buttons
  5. Holding the Shift key and drag the buttons onto the SimpleButtonHolder area
    1. This will add the area into the SimpleButtonHolder
    area
  6. Go into the configuration form for the area SimpleButtonHolder
  7. Enter the settings:
    1. Direction: Row Wrap
      1. Sets the area to a row layout
    2. Justify: Flex End
      1. Sets the content of the row to be right justified i.e.e the end of the row.
    3. Align: Center
      1. Sets the vertical alignment of the row to the center.

Save your changes to see the results.

Update the style for the Delete button

  1. Go into the configuration form for the button Delete
  2. Open the section Style Settings Set the and apply the following settings:
    1. Border Style
     to 
    1. Solid
    Set the 
    1. Border Width
     to 3
    1. : 3px
    Set a 
    1. Border Colour: red
    Set a 
    1. Background Colouryellow
    Set a 
    1. Text Colour: Black

Save your changes, close and reopen the dashboard to see the results.

Update style for all buttons

  1. Go into the configuration form for a button - you can use any button
  2. Open the section Shared Styles
  3. Open the shared style Button Style
  4. Set the Border Style to Solid
  5. Set the Border Width to 3
  6. Set a Border Colour
  7. Set a Background Colour
  8. Set a Text Colourstyle Button Style and set the following:
    1. Border Style: Solid
    2. Border Width: 3px
    3. Border Colour: any colour
    4. Background Colour: any colour
    5. Text Colour: black

Save your changes to see the results. All buttons will update to reflect the new style settings, other than the Delete buttonthe Delete button. The specific styling on the Delete button the Delete button overrides the styling applied through the shared style Button style Button Style.

Clear styles

  1. Clear your style settings on the Delete buttonthe Delete button
  2. Save your changes - the Delete button the Delete button should now look at the same at as the other buttons
  3. Clear your style settings in the shared style Button style Button Style
  4. You should see the styling for all buttons return to the default
    1. If you do not it may be necessary to close and reopen the dashboard.

Create a CSS property for a button

  1. Open the configuration form for the button Delete
  2. Go to the section CSS Properties
  3. Press the + button to add a css style
  4. Enter the settings:
    1. CSS Tag: background-color
    2. Value: #bdbdbd
    3. StateMouse Over


Save your changes, close the dashboard and reopen it to review the result.


Tip

To access a colour picker within PhixFlow

  1. Open the configuration form for an object on the edit form - you can use any object for this (button, button label, form, field, etc.).
  2. Use the colour picker to choose a colour you like, copy and paste the # value into the Value field of the CSS property.
  3. Close the other configuration editor making sure you do not save

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  1. your changes

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Create a Shared Style

  1. Open the configuration form for the shared style Button
  2. Drag the CSS property you created for the Delete button into the shared style
  3. Click the + button to add another style
  4. Enter the settings:
    1. CSS Tag: padding-right
    2. Value: 5px

Save your changes. You should now see the mouse over colour applied to all buttons

Create a specific style override

  1. Open the configuration form for the button Delete
  2. Go to the section CSS Properties
  3. Press the + button to add a css style
  4. Enter the settings:
    1. CSS Tag: background-color
    2. Value: red

Save your changes. You should now see the red mouse over colour applied to the Delete button.

Sort Order

  1. Open the configuration form for the button Add
  2. Set Order to 3
  3. Open the configuration form for the button Update
  4. Set Order to 2
  5. Open the configuration form for the button Delete
  6. Set Order to 1

Save your changes, close the dashboard and reopen it to review the result.

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