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This page is for data modellers and application designers who want to select specific attributes to appear in a screen, and to format how the data will be displayed.

Overview

Use a data view to display data from a table on an application screen:

as a data grid or chart
sorted and ordered as required
showing data from the latest run, or across all time.

To learn concepts about views and how to create them, see Understanding Data Views.

You can send data reports from PhixFlow by emailing the output of a File Exporter, a Task Plans, or a Screen.

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Basic Settings

Field Description

Name The name of the view. By default, a space will be included before each capital letter. For example, the name CustSpendAverage will be displayed in the column heading as Cust Spend Average.

Display Type

A number of chart types are available:

Barchart: plot a quantity as a set of bars against a set of categories along the horizontal axis.
3D Barchart: a 3D version of the standard barchart.
Barchart (horizontal)
Grid: show data laid out in a grid.
Line Chart (category horizontal axis): plot line, or lines, representing quantities against a horizontal axis of 'categories'. The categories are printed along the horizontal axis, ordered alphanumerically.
Line Chart (numeric horizontal axis): plot line, or lines, representing quantities against a numerical horizontal axis.
3D Pie Chart: a 3D version of the standard pie chart.
Pie Chart: show a quantity as a pie chart, grouped by a category.
Pivot: show data laid out in a table, with data for values of one attribute broken out ('pivoted') into multiple columns; see Pivot Details section, below.
Stacked Barchart: a bar chart where multiple series/multiple attributes per category are displayed in a stacked form.
Line Chart (times series horizontal axis): plot line, or lines, representing quantities against a date/time value - an attribute of type Date or Datetime.

Default Sort Order If specified, the default order in which data should be displayed. See Sort Order.

Default Filter Any filter on the table can be selected as the default filter for this view.

Background Filter Any filter on the table can be selected as the background filter for this view. When the user opens this view the background filter is applied first and any other filter applied to the view (either specifically created/selected by the user or automatically applied as the default filter described above) applied on top of the background filter.

Double-click Action

The default action to run when the user double-clicks on a row in a data grid; see Action. For example:

run an update action so that a user (with permission) can update the record
open a read-only detailed view of the record.

Drag Type The drag type that will be used when dragging data from this view. See Drag Types and Drop Targets.

Enable Filter Picker

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to allow the filter picker to be used for filters created for this view. See Filters on Data Views.

Form View

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to make this a form view. This can be used to accepting input from a user, for an insert or update action.

Include History Records

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to include audit records in the view data. If set, superseded records will be identified by a grey background on the grid row. If not set, superseded records will be filtered out.

View Attributes

A list of attributes displayed in the view. Click to show view attributes window. Drag the attributes you want to add to the view into this list. If there are related tables, you can also drag in attributes from the related tables; see View Editor Window.

In the list:

to edit the attribute's properties, double-click an attribute; see View Attribute
to delete an attribute, right-click and select
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to set pivot table options, right-click an attribute to open the pop-up menu, which has the options to:
- Make Pivot Value
- Make Pivot Column
- Make Pivot Row
- Make Pivot Label
- Make Pivot Row Total

When designing a chart, drag attributes from this list onto the chart builder in the screen.

Filters

The list of filters that will be available to application users in the drop-down list of filters on the view.

There are two ways to add a filter to this list:

Click on the filter button in this section
- PhixFlow opens a list of all the available filters on the parent table.
- Drag a filter from this popup into the list.
Go to the parent table's filters and drag filters into this list; see Filter

Access Permissions

For details about how to control access to a view, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.

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Advanced

Field

Description

Selection Attribute

This attribute will be used to determine the record selected. This is important when the data will be refreshed while users are looking at it - for example, if they run actions that run task plans to update the data, and which are set as refresh actions (see above). Setting this using a key field of the data means that after the refresh, the same record will be selected as before.

Auto Save

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to save the edited row after another row is clicked.

If a user makes a change to a view with Auto Save selected, then clicks

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Auto Save Action

Available when Auto Save is ticked.

Select an action from the list, or click

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When an application user clicks elsewhere in the screen, PhixFlow runs the selected autosave action.

Row Selection Style

The style that will applied to rows in this view when they are selected. If set, this will override the default selected row style set in the System Configuration.

Select First Row By Default

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to automatically select the first row shown in the view when the view is opened.

Show Paging Bar

Available when Display Type is Grid.

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Show Records Count

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to calculate the total number of rows. Users do not have to click the '...' symbol to see this information.

Show Row Number

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to display the row number on the grid.

Always Show the Column Filter Icon

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to always display the a filter icon on this grid's column headers. This means users can quickly select values on which to filter the grid.

Periods

Number of processing periods from the table to display on the chart. If a full set of data is generated in each period, then this will be 1. If the data is spread across processing periods in the table - for example, each processing period only contains new data for that day, but we want to plot data across a number of days - then this number must be high enough to include all data of interest to show on a chart.

Default Width

The default width of the view. If empty, the view's width will be set to the system default value.

Default Height

The default height of the view. If empty, the view's height will be set to the system default value.

Allow Multi-Select

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to enable users to select more than one row in the grid.

Frozen Columns

Number of columns frozen while scrolling the View horizontally.

Excel Template

An Excel template can be linked to the view to specify the format the chart data should be exported in.

The location that excel templates must be saved to is specified in the System Configuration.

Chart Layout
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Available when Type is one of the chart view options. PhixFlow only shows options that are relevant for the type of chart selected.

Tip

To configure attributes to display as a chart:

Drag the table or view onto a screen.
Select the chart option you want.
Select the attributes you want to use on the chart.
PhixFlow creates the view and the screen displays a chart builder.
Drag attributes from the view properties onto the chart builder boxes.
- Series and Series (right axis)
- on the vertical axis: Y attributes and Y attributes (right axis)
- on the horizontal :X axis
- Label attribute
- For a horizontal bar chart or line chart, the chart builder boxes are:
- Series, Y Attributes , X Attributes, Label Attributes

Behind the chart builder you can see the chart. To show the chart without the chart builder overlay, either lock the layout or switch to

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Field

Description

Show Legend

When a series is used,

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Display Legend Below The Chart

Available when Show Legend is ticked for charts with left axis only.

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to display the legend above the chart.

Show Controls

Available when Display Type is Barchart.

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to display a Grouped/Stacked switch on the chart.

Mark Selection

Available when Display Type is Barchart.

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to add a visible border around the currently selected bar.

Tooltip Number Format

Select or add a number format to be applied to a chart tooltip.

Colour Map

Select or add a colour map.

Group Spacing

Available when Display Type is Barchart.

Specify a value between 0 and 1 to define custom spacing between bar groups.

Chart Axis Options

Horizontal Axis Section

Vertical Axis Section
Left or right axis

Description

Show Horizontal Axis

Show Vertical Axis

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Horizontal Axis Title

Vertical Axis Title

Available when Show Horizontal/Vertical Axis is ticked.
The label to appear below the axis.

Title Style

Available when Show Horizontal/Vertical Axis is ticked.
Select or add a style with properties to specify the format of the axis title text.

Label Angle

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Available when Display Type is Barchart, Barchart (stacked) and all Line Charts.
The orientation of the values displayed along the horizontal axis. Select a value from the drop-down menu.

Horizontal Axis Increment

Vertical Axis Increment

Specify the interval between tick marks on the axis. For example if the data values have a range from 1 to 100, specify a value of 5 or 10.

Force Horizontal Axis Ticks

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Logarithmic Scale

Available when Display Type is any type of Line Chart.

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Minimum Value

Only for
Barchart (horizontal)

Minimum Value

For charts except
Barchart (horizontal)

Specify a minimum value to show on the axis. If the data includes lower values, they will not be plotted.

If no minimum is specified, PhixFlow scales the chart from the lowest data point.

Compares min and max and then it compares to data and says I don't need it

If over the range they don't have an effect unless you tick fixed scale

If its smaller, you are chopping off those parts of the graph top and bottom

It plots everything but then the top is chopped off - so the bar will go to the top or the line will disappear off or appear on

Maximum Value

Only for
Barchart (horizontal)

Maximum Value

For charts except
Barchart (horizontal

Specify a maximum value to show on the axis. If the data includes higher values, they will not be plotted.

If no maximum is specified, PhixFlow scales the chart up to the highest data point.

Fixed Scale

Only for
Barchart (horizontal)

Fixed Scale

For charts except
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to always use the Maximum Value and Minimum Value as the highest and lowest values on the axis.

Left axis you can choose,

Right axis cannot be adjusted to the data.... For the right axis it will use the min and max, whatever the data is doing (so it is effectively always fixed).

Right axis is different

Horizontal Axis Increment

Vertical Axis Increment

Specify a value to use as increments on the axis

Show Horizontal Gridlines

Show Vertical Gridlines

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Horizontal Axis Date Format

Vertical Axis Date Format

Available when the attribute selected for the axis is a date or date/time.
Select or add a Date or Date/Time format to use for the value labels.

Horizontal Axis Number Format

Vertical Axis Number Format

Available when the attribute selected for the axis is a number.
Select or add a Number Format for for the axis labels.

Text Style

Select or add a style with properties to specify the format of the text for the axis labels

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Available when Type Line Chart (time). These apply to the horizontal axis, which in this case is a time series:

Field	Description
Primary Axis Unit	Units for date display along the horizontal axis. Choose a value from the drop-down list. Note, however, that only as many values will be displayed as can comfortably be fitted in the space available.
Primary Axis Format	Choose a format to display dates along the primary horizontal axis.
Secondary Axis Unit	Units for an optional, second date display along the horizontal axis. This might be used, for example, to create a graph where the months are shown along the primary horizontal axis (Primary Axis Unit = 'Month', Primary Axis Format = 'Jan, Feb') and the years are shown along a line below this, along the secondary horizontal axis (Secondary Axis Unit = 'Year', Secondary Axis Format = 'Four digit year').
Secondary Axis Format	Choose a format to display dates along the secondary horizontal axis, if this is being used.

Pivot Details
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For pivot views, the property tab includes the following settings.

Field

Description

Pivot Column Source

This controls how the field given the role Pivot Column will be used to generate columns in the pivot table. Choose from one of:

View Data - the pivot columns are generated directly from the data in the Pivot Column field. If a field has been given the role Pivot Label, the label values corresponding to values in the Pivot Column field will be used as pivot column headers. The is the simplest way to generate the pivot columns, but does not allow any control of the order of values, or the ability to handle missing values e.g. when generating standard reports
Expression - the pivot column values are the result of an expression.

Pivot Column Expr

If Pivot Column Source is Expression, this expression must return either a list of values or a list of pairs of values (the values and corresponding labels).

The expression can refer to any lookup pipe that is an input to the parent table of the view.

E.g.

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['20150101', '20150201', '20150301']

In this example the resulting view displays three pivot columns.

The pivot view only displays data where the value of the pivot column attribute equals one of the three quoted values - data that does not match any of the pivot column values is ignored.

The pivot column labels are generated from the pivot values using the formatting rules of the Pivot Column field. In particular, the Label expression can be used to generate formatted label values automatically. If no formatting or Label expression is provided, a default label is generated. This is the recommended way of formatting column labels.

E.g.

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[['20150101', 'January 2015'], ['20150201', 'February 2015'], ['20150301', 'March 2015']]

In the second example, the same data is displayed, but the column headers are provided in the second values for each pivot column.

This method of setting column labels is not recommended, and is provided for compatibility with existing pivot views.

Maximum Pivot Columns

This is the maximum number of pivot columns that can be displayed. If this is blank, the system-wide default in System Configuration is used.

Include History Records

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To configure a pivot view, add attributes (Todo - Fiona from where to where?). Each attribute must be assigned to one of the following purposes in the pivot chart.

Purpose	Description
Pivot Column	This field will be used to generate columns in the pivot table. Formatting of the column headings will be controlled by the formatting options set on this view attribute. A Pivot view must have one and only one Pivot Column attribute.
Pivot Row	This field will be used to generate the rows of the pivot. A Pivot View can have any number of Pivot Row attributes.
Pivot Label	If Pivot Column Source is View Data, this attribute provides the pivot column headings. In most cases, the number of values for the pivot label should be exactly the same as the number of values for the pivot column. A Pivot View can have at most one Pivot Column attribute.
Pivot Value	The values in this field will be used to generate the data values in the pivot. You must apply an aggregate function (Table Function) to this attribute - to provide the sum, max, min, etc. of these values for each row and column. A Pivot view must have one and only one Pivot Value attribute.
Pivot Row Total	Each Pivot Row Total attribute generates a value for each row calculated as an aggregate of the individual pivot column values. The aggregate function can be any single-valued Aggregate Function (Sum, Minimum, Maximum, Average, Count). A Pivot View can have any number of Pivot Row Total attributes.

Grid View: How to Configure Coloured Rows

The colours of rows in grid views can be set by creating an attribute called gridRowColour, and adding this to the view. This value will not be shown in the grid.

The value of this attribute must evaluate to either a hexadecimal value representing a colour or to the lower case name of one of the basic HTML colours. Visit www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp to see how hexadecimal values correspond to real colours. The table below lists the basic HTML colour names:

Aqua	Black	Blue	Fuchsia
Gray	Green	Lime	Maroon
Navy	Olive	Purple	Red
Silver	Teal	White	Yellow

You are recommended to avoid dark colours as they make data in the grid very hard to read.

View Context Menu

Show Record Details	Opens a window with all the information contained in that grid row
View Properties	Opens the properties tab for the view.
Table Properties	Opens the properties tab for the table.
List Attributes <viewName>	Opens a list of all of the attributes (column headers) for this view. Attributes formatted in italics are present in the table but are hidden in the grid. To change whether an attribute is hidden or visible, right-click the attribute and select Show this column or Hide this column.

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Action Settings

Field

Description

Double-click Action

Select the type of action that PhixFlow will run when the user double-clicks the view.

No Action
Stream Action
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Drop Action

Available when Double-click Action is Stream Action.

Select action that will run when something of the chosen Drag Type is dropped onto this view.

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Actionflow

Available when Double-click Action is Actionflow.

Select the actionflow that will run when the chosen Drag Type is dropped onto this view.

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Drag Type

The drag type that this drop type is listening for.

Refresh Actions

A list of Refresh Actions which are all the actions that, following their execution, will cause this view to be refreshed.

To add a Refresh Action go to a the Actions tab and drag actions into this tab. The table does not have to be the parent of this view.

Drop Targets

A list of the drop targets that this view will contain. To add a drop target, click on the + button at the top of the grid.

For each drop target you set the following fields:

Field	Description
Name	The name of the drop target.
Drag Type	The drag type that this drop type is listening for.
Drop Action	The action that will run when something of the chosen drag type is dropped onto this view.

Menu Items

A list of the buttons, menus and sub-menus that will be presented on this view - which buttons are available to users depends on whether they have permissions to run these actions.

Only actions that belong to the parent table can be added to a view.

There are three ways to add lists and buttons:

Click on the Actions icon at the top of the grid.
- A popup window will appear listing all the available actions on the parent table.
- Drag an action from this popup form onto the grid.
- If you drop onto an existing button, PhixFlow prompts you to:
  - either create a new button
  - or create a list for the new button and the button onto which you dropped the new action.
- If you drop onto an existing list, PhixFlow adds the dragged action to the list
Open the Table properties. Drag actions into Properties tab→ Actions section list.
Click the
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For each button, set the following fields:

Field	Description
Drop Action Click Action for a menu	Select a drop action. todo-Fiona what is this
Name	Available for sub-menus. The internal name of the action button. This name will be used to refer to this button in other configuration objects
Display Name	The name that will be presented to users when they open the form.
Order	The order that the button will be shown in the banner of the form, or, if the button is on a list (a menu or sub-menu), the order the button will appear in that list.
Menu Items	Available for sub-menus. todo-fiona more info

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Style Settings

For grid views, there are default styles set in System Configuration that determine the appearance of the grid on a screen. To apply different styles to a grid view, select the style from the drop-down.

Field	Description
Grid Header Style	Select the style for the grid's header row.
Grid Header Button Style	Select the style for buttons in the header row.
Grid Header Icon Style	Select the style for icons in the header row.
Grid Header Drop-down Button Style	Select the style for drop-down buttons in the header row.
Grid Header Drop-down Pane Style	Select the style for drop-down panes.
Grid Paging Style	Select the style for the paging bar.
Grid Row Style	Select the style for rows.
Grid Column Header Style	Select the style for column headers.
Row Selection Style	Select the style for the currently selected row(s).

To see a full list of styles, click

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