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- Run your PhixFlow installation. If necessary:
- Switch to
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- Expand the Help Viewer.
Developing an application in PhixFlow is a simple process:
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PhixFlow is a flexible platform that can help you to manage your data. This Quick Start Guide introduces the process you can follow to build an application:
- Set up a PhixFlow application
- Define your data
- Load the data into PhixFlow
- Create a screen to maintain your data
To illustrate the process, you will create a simple analysis model and build an application to view and update its data.
PhixFlow has a lot of different options and settings. So that you can work through the process, some things are already set up for you:
- the Excel spreadsheet which you can download from here
- styles, set as system/application defaults, so that PhixFlow knows how to format data tables - which we call grids
- a palette of application components that you can drag onto the layout.
- styles that control the colours and appearance of the screen
You can change things
All the "bits" you have added to the dashboard are stored in the repository, in a branch called Layouts.
If you expand the Business Editor Form > Business Body > Form Content Container > Form Column Container 1x2, you can see how different parts of the dashboard are repository items that are nested. These items and their container-contained relationships have been created automatically when you drag in the components from the palette.
From the palette, the form body is fixed at a 50-50 split. Double-click on Column 1 to open its properties.
Expand the Style Settings section
untick AutoSize
Now PhixFlow sets the size of area showing the fields based on their field width, leaving more space for the description.
Add Update actions
First Tab is for Business Details
Right click and create a new formFrom the Theme 1 Template drag a “Form Inner” onto the display area
Drag the attributes from the Business Stream onto the left column
Drag Description onto the right side.
Change the header to Business details
Make the header "Dynamic" to use a the data from the attribute
Initially the form does not change whith selected
Drag UID onto form.
Creates a backgound filter to use the UID to decide which is selected. See properties and say yeas
Add a sort order. If you update without a sort order, updated data
Without audit it overrides the entry in situ. Audit - marks old record as invalid and makes a new stream set. Without sort order - moves to the bottom. Sort by name, uid - use the dasboard.
LOcking and unlocking the layout
CRUD the data
Connecting the data in the grid at the top to the form at the bottom of the dashboard.
At the moment, the data at the top of screen is in a random order.
- we want to sort the data
The bottom screen only shows the first record
we want the form to show the record we have selected
In the grid at the top, hover to show the filter icon. Drag it onto the blue background of the form in the bottom and confirm.
PhixFlow opens a properties tab with Filter Details that shows how the filter works.
You can rename it to something more meaningful, such as By_UID.
Where does this filter get stored in the repository????
We want to do the header