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If you are creating or editing template components for a palette, you can configure its preferred parent to enable highlighting. The nature and naming of parent types is up to you.
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The following palettes |
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predate version 9.0.0 and the template components are not configured with preferred parents. |
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PhixFlows Base components, theme 1 and theme 2 are not configured with preferred parents.
I am using a template and dragging things into a screen. PhixFlow hightlights stuff to show where I can drop it.
I am creating or modifying a component that will be a template and want to select the preferred parent from the list in the component properties.
Where components on a palette have been configured with preferred parents, as you drag a component onto the screen, PhixFlow highlights parent components that are designed to hold this component.
You can see which components would be preferred parents in the Preferred Parent Categories.
Set layout categories in template components.
Added a new Type of object "Layout Category", an Area Component can be given a Layout Category and additionally all layout components have a collection of "preferred parent categories". When dropping a layout component onto a layout it will try to find an area component with one of its preferred parent categories to set as its parent. If one is not found it will drop as before.
Creating Layout Categories
PhixFlow uses layout categories so that template components can be configured with preferred parents. When you drag a component from the palette, PhixFlow can then highlight the areas of the screen that are an appropriate container for the component.
To create a layout category:
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How to Configure Preferred Parents
- Create layout categories; see Layout Category Properties, below.
- Either in the repository, expand the Layout Categories section and click
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- Either in the repository, expand the Layout Categories section and click
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- Or in an area component properties, in Basic Settings → Layout Categories, click
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- Or in an area component properties, in Basic Settings → Layout Categories, click
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- Edit an area template components. In Basic Settings → Layout Category, select a layout category.
- Open the repository and expand Layout Categories.
- Drag the repository tab to the left to display it next to the other tabs.
- In the palette, right-click on a component and select Edit. PhixFlow opens its properties.
- From the repository, drag a layout category onto the Preferred Parent Categories list.
The following table shows some examples of the layout categories you could create, and the components that would be appropriate for them.
| Template component | Layout category/preferred parent |
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| static and dynamic text fields | header area, form area |
| data fields | form area |
| buttons | button-bar area |
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Step 4 illustrated:
Layout Category Properties
Use layout categories to configure preferred parent area highlighting when you drag components from the palette onto a screen.
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Basic Settings
| Field | Description |
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| Name | Enter the name for the layout category |
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, which PhixFlow will add to the Layout Categories section of the repository. Drag layout categories from the repository into the Preferred Parent Categories section of components. |
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