This page is for PhixFlow application designers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.

Overview

When you create an application in PhixFlow, you select a template. This configures default styles and formats for your application. For how to create a new application, see Creating an Application.

When you are working on your application in

• define data relationships: see Entity Relationship Diagrams
• design screens that form the graphical user interface (GUI) of an application: see Designing Screens
• connect parts of the screen to actions or actionflows that create functionality: Understanding Actionflows

This page lists the application properties. To open the application properties tab:

1. Go to the

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   If the tab is not present, in the PhixFlow toolbar, click the 

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    icon.
2. In the Applications section, double-click your application's name.
3. PhixFlow opens the properties tab for the application on the right.

Use the options to set:

• icons for the application
• defaults for:
  • number formats
  • styles for grids
  • components to use for displaying data.
• menus so that user's can navigate through the application
• access privileges to specify which users can use the application.
• any packages containing shared resources that your application can use; see Package.

Loading an Application

Application users can load an application into 

You can work on the files in an application's project without loading it. However, if you load an application, the repository is automatically filtered to show just the files available to the application. 

There are several ways to load an application.

• From the application menu, click the application card to load it.
  By default, PhixFlow opens with the application menu displayed. To redisplay the menu, in the top left of the PhixFlow window click:
  • either the

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  • or the 

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    , if it appears.
• From the repository, right-click on the application name and select 

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• In a browser address bar, enter the application URL; see Starting PhixFlow. When PhixFlow is started in this way, you can still navigate to other applications that you have permission to access.

Application 

Basic Settings

Style Settings

When you drag a table or view onto a screen canvas, and select a grid component to display the table data, PhixFlow adds a grid. In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set the following:

• Grid Header Style

• Grid Header Button Style

• Grid Header Icon Style

• Grid Header Drop-down Button Style

• Grid header Drop-down Pane Style

• Grid Paging Style

• Grid Row Style

• Grid Column Header Style

• Row Selection Style

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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   to show available styles

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   to create a new style; see Style.

The styles you select override any styles set in System Configuration. You can override these defaults for individual grids using the style settings in the View properties.

Default Components

In this section, select an appropriate component for PhixFlow to add when you drag attributes onto a form or card container. For information about data types see Understanding Data Types.

• String
• Bigstring
• Long
• Float
• Decimal
• True/False
• Date
• DateTime

Also set the styling for the containers:

• form
• card

And select a default:

• action
  This is the button that PhixFlow adds when you drag a table-action onto a screen canvas.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with Menu Options and Toolbar Buttons. The grid lists the menus that have actionflows or record-actions that can be applied for this application.

PhixFlow automatically creates a default menu when you create the application project. PhixFlow will display in the default menu in the menu bar:

• once you have added options to the menu
• and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).

If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.

You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices. Right-click on a line in the list to show the popup menu options:

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  : use this menu on desktop devices. The grid shows the desktop icon next to the menu name.

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  : use this menu on mobile devices. The grid shows the mobile icon next to the menu name.

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   create another menu to the list; see Startup Actions properties.

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   delete the menu from this application.

Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages.

A package is a bundle of PhixFlow items that are shared between multiple applications. When you export/import an application to another PhixFlow instance, it is important to export/import all packages with the application; see Moving Items and Data Between Instances.

One package will include your applications theme settings. To add another package to the application:

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    to list all the packages in the repository.
2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button  

Popup Menu Options

To access popup menus for an application:

• Either, in the repository, right-click on an application's name to show the popup menu.
    
• Or, in the application menu:
  • click the 

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  • right-click anywhere on the card

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application card	Load application in a New Tab	Open a new browser tab with the selected application loaded.
application card	Load Application in a New Window	Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded.
repository application name	Filter by Name	In the repository. filter the list of applications to only show the selected application. The application is not loaded.
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repository application name	Insert excerpt _delete _delete nopanel true	Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.