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Find your way around PhixFlow
When you first open your PhixFlow training instance, you will see a list of available application in the area on the left. The area on the right is the repository. Click on Full Repository to see all the application and associated objects available in PhixFlow.
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When you create your first analysis model, PhixFlow opens a modelling window. To start adding modelling objects, drag them from the toolbar, for example:Image Removed
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Save models and modelling objects
When you are modelling data in PhixFlow, you will be making changes:
- to a model, the objects it includes and its layout.
- to settings for the model itself, or to settings for its objects. Use one of the toolbar icons at the top of the settings tab:
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to save your changes and close the settings tab.Insert excerpt _finish _finish nopanel true
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Create and open a new model
In the repository, expand Full Repository, then Analysis Models.
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Image RemovedPhixFlow displays a settings tab for From the home screen select Analysis and in the window that opens click Add New.
To open an existing model simply double-click on it.
PhixFlow displays the settings for a new analysis model. In Basic Settings, set:
Name:Introduction to Modelling
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In the white workspace on the left, PhixFlow opens a new, empty modelling windowcanvas.
Add objects to your model
You can have multiple files open in the workspace. When a model window models open, each will be displayed on their own tab above the toolbar. When a model is open, PhixFlow displays the model name and its toolbar. Drag modelling objects from the toolbar to add them to your model.
To drag a modelling object into your model:
- Click and hold
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- Then drop the streamtable.
To move any object in a model, simply click, drag, then drop the icon in a new location.
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Change object settings
When you drop an object into the model, on the right PhixFlow opens a settings tab.
- In the stream Table settings → Basic Settings, set:
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to save and close the settings tab.Insert excerpt _finish _finish nopanel true - PhixFlow updates the stream Table icon in your model to display the name
Practice StreamTable
. - Now save your model. Click
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Undo a change to a model
Sometimes you may make a change to a model that you do not want to keep.
- In your model, drag the stream to a different location.
- Without saving, click
.Insert excerpt _refresh _refresh nopanel true - Notice that the model returns to its previously saved layout.