This guide shows you how to create a simple screen.

Introduction 

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Use your PhixFlow sandbox to make a simple application. This application will have a single screen, called a layout, that displays data and lets you create, read, update or delete (CRUD) data records. You can additionally add comments.

Some things are already set up for you:

• a simple model to provide the data.
• a palette of components that you can drag onto the layout.
• styles that control the colours and appearance of the screen.

Remember that you can:

• build models using your own data stored in external databases or files. The Introduction to Modelling Course teaches you how to do this.
• set up your own styles and palettes to create completely customised layouts. The Building Applications Course goes through this process.

teps

1. Create your application: It is created with default options
   • Advanced: 
     Think about data first - ERD
     scroll down the properties - there are lots of options that you can set for your application
2. Create your data
   1. Pull in an existing file
   2. Advanced: PhixFlow can connect to databases or load from files or...
   3. Open the model and view the data - simple stream
3. Create a view of your data
   1. add dashboard/form/layout
   2. use splitters to lay out the area
   3. Add the grid
      Advanced: You can show data as a table, but also as charts
   4. Change the attributes shown in the grid - remove the audit attributes
4. Create forms to edit your data
   1. Use the palette to add a form (an "inner" form is part of a bigger layout with header, body, footer)
   2. Show that you can edit content (CRUD)
   3. Advanced: Forms can have headers, footers, bodies, buttons, drop-downs, fields
5. Add buttons for actions
   1. Add a "floating" form to add a description.
   2. Add the action to update stream
   3. Show the form in action - that is is always on top, and that save also closes the pop-up. 
6. Linking forms together
   1. Add a comments stream to the model
   2. Add comment cards
   3. As layouts are not a fixed structure, but "flow" their order in the repository is important. To reorder an item, you don't drag it in the layout, but in the repository.
   4. Add actions to the card
   5. Show the audit attributes on the card
   6. Add comments on the card.

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