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  • Screen (dashboard) and dashboard elements and in the repo
  • Components and layouts Layout container/child relationships and page structure
  • Types of component and what they look like
    • Containers: areas, forms: is there any difference?
    • Fields
    • Data components and data views 
      •  forms
      • grids
      • etc
  • Connecting components to data - link out
  • finding container (don't use parent because the useless parent field only shows the application)
  • Components and layouts in the palette → Themes and palletes
  • Responsive design - point to theme 2 pages (can these be generalised)
  • Changing design - styles and shared styles.

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You can simplify the process of creating a screen by using the themes available for PhixFlow; see:

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  • a stream
  • a view - s
    •  8.3 or earlier - aa stream plus filters
    • 9.0 onwards - a stream, attributes from related streams (see ERDS) plus filters etc.


Containers - can they nest???

Finding a Component's

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Container/Area
Anchor
formBuildingFindComponentParent
formBuildingFindComponentParent

In most cases, a component's container is fairly obvious - and you can find it by clicking just outside the area of the component. In some cases, it is not obvious. Remember also that with pinned components, you could drag a component from an area, which is its container, into another area, so that the component now appears in an area that is not actually its container.

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