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Tooltip Descriptions

Most PhixFlow objects have an optional description field. PhixFlow will display this description as you hover over the object in a list or on a model. We recommend that you provide descriptions for all your objects to help document your work for both yourself and colleagues.

See also

Repository Context Menu

Dashboard Context Menu

Task Bar Options

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TaskBar TaskBar

The task bar is the grey bar at the bottom of the PhixFlow Window.

Move to property page and make sure the links are there

When you open the property tab for a model or one of its modelling objects, the tab has a toolbar at the top. 

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Save the current properties and keep the tab open.

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Toggle between the current property tab and one that was previously open.

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Find in Explorer. This icon will bring the repository 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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Context sensitive help.

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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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permanent as there is no "undo" option

everywhere, so if the object is used by other models, it is also deleted there.

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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.

Property Section Toolbars

Each property tab can contain a number of sections.  Each section has a header represented by a green bar with a small arrow before the section label which can be clicked to collapse and open the section. 

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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.

Create and insert a new item into the list.

Open up a grid showing more details about each item.

Delete the selected item or items.

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.

Model Toolbar

Context Menu

All objects have context menus associated with them which are accessed by right-clicking the mouse button. One key context menu item is Permanently Delete which is always the last item on the list (to help ensure it is not pressed accidentally)! 

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.

Grid

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grids grids

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.

The following general features of grids are worth noting:

The items on grids are paged which means that PhixFlow fetches a batch of data at a time to populate the grid. The grid footer bar indicates which items are being shown, how many items there are in total and the page size. The user can page forwards and backwards using and . Note that the user can also change the page size (the number of rows brought back from the PhixFlow Database). Please note that with very large datasets it will be more efficient to filter the the data rather than page through it!

Columns can be ordered by clicking the column header. Each click reverses the order direction. Please note that only the items currently paged in the display are ordered.

The following functional icons are common to many grids:

Stream Views Pop-Up Menu

When you drag stream attributes onto a layout, such as a dashboard or form, PhixFlow prompts how to display the data.

Tooltip Descriptions

Most PhixFlow objects have an optional description field. PhixFlow will display this description as you hover over the object in a list or on a model. We recommend that you provide descriptions for all your objects to help document your work for both yourself and colleagues.

See also

Repository Context Menu