This page is provides the reference information for dashboard properties.
Todo - decide if this should be renamed to Screen. Link in Phixflow will need to be updated.
Overview
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Overview
Create application screens by starting with a dashboard; see Creating or Opening a Screen.
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Where dashboard elements are bound to data, you can link them, so that the data in one dashboard element drives the data in another; see Linked and Driving Views.
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and:
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The grid contains a list of menu items. To add a menu item to the list, click
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To remove a menu, use the toolbar button 
Delete Everywhere.
Mappings
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of mappings between attributes that are the same but have different names in different streams (tables) or views. PhixFlow will evaluate all the mapped datasets when it runs an action on the dashboard. Todo - check this is the correct mapping.
Unreachable Actions
Todo - New feature related to actionflows?
Actions
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid displays a list of actions and/or (todo - check) stream item actions (record-actions) that are linked to the screen.
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| _description |
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Menus and Toolbars
Screen Toolbar
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| _layout_unlock |
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| _layout_unlock |
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| Unlock a screen to edit its layout. |
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| Lock a screen to prevent accidental edits and to display the data content. |
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| For dashboards created in PhixFlow versions 8.3 and earlier, open a window listing the context parameters in alphabetical order. todo- check if going away |
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| For dashboards created in PhixFlow versions 8.3 and earlier, open the properties for the dashboard element. |
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| Use these options to divide a screen into multiple, resizable panes. Select the option to add a pane relative to the currently selected pane. To remove a pane, use the pop-up menu options | Insert excerpt |
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| Fix the height of the selected pane. |
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| Fix the width of the selected pane. |
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| _delete |
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| _delete |
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| When a specific component is selected, delete the component. Other delete options that may be available relate to specific types of component in the selected pane. |
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| Delete options depend on the selected item. Examples are: | Insert excerpt |
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| Delete a dashboard element. |
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| Create a new form in the current area. |
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| Fix the position of selected objects. todo- check ifgoing away Pin a component to fix its position; see Pinning and Unpinning. |
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| Open the palette to drag in components. |
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| Toggle whether or not the currently selected component is automatically auto sized when an application window is resized by the user. | Note |
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change to Show in layers?? | Open the repository with to see the selected component in the list. This can be useful if you want to move a component. |
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| Open the properties tab for the screen. |
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| Display information about the stream (table) and its (stream items) records. todo - Check this option's name has changed??Add component mapping |
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| _mapping |
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| Opens a new Mapping Element mapping element properties tab where you can map | Select all children | map attributes with different names to components. |
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| For the selected parent container, select all the child components too. |
| Show Attributes for <table name> | Open the list of attributes for the table. This option is available when a screen is backed by a table. |
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