This page is for application designers. It explains the basic principles for how to add components from the palette as well as features to help you.
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- overview
- icons
- move pinning to bottom and note its more legacy
- tidy text and a link to data-binding
- design a basic form - series of - link to pages from video
- Screen -button - create actionflow - wiring a basic actionflows
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- Use Palette layouts that have multiple areas; see Divide a Screen Using a Palette Layout, below.
This layout has:- a container area type: split view
- sibling areas
- Use pop-up menu options Add Area...; see Divide a Screen Using "Add Area" Options, below.
To resize a pane, drag its dividing line. This automatically resizes adjacent panes. To prevent resizing, right-click to display the pop-up menu and select:
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| Drag From | Item | Drag on to | Creates | ||||||||
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| component or layout | anywhere on a screen | the component(s) on the screen | ||||||||
repository → Layout Templates | component or layout | anywhere on a screen | |||||||||
Either repository → Stream → Attribute Or a pop-up list of attributes | attribute | an area | a labelled field | ||||||||
Either repository → Stream Or stream (table) properties icon (top left) | stream (table) | anywhere on a screen
| Prompts you to select the data-component you want to add. This also creates a view based on the stream (table).
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Either repository → Stream → View Or stream properties → View section Or a pop-up list of views | view | area or component that displays data | Todo-Anthony For existing views, it knows what type of view it is. Adds the view of the type it already is. | ||||||||
| repository → Action | action | area or form | a button on the area or form to run the action | ||||||||
default menu bar | a button on the menu bar to run the action | ||||||||||
| repository → Stream → Action | stream action from the backing stream | area or form | a button on the area or form to run the action | ||||||||
| header of a data-component | a button on the header to run the action | ||||||||||
| repository → Dashboard | another screen |
| A button to open the screen |
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Connecting Layouts to Data
Todo-Anthony - check To connect a form area to data in a stream (table) stream
- From the repository, drag the stream name onto an area or layout
- From the stream
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- properties, drag the icon at the top of the properties onto an area or layout.
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PhixFlow will prompt you to select the type of stream or card view that you want to create; see Stream Views Pop-Up Menu.
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