PhixFlow comprises two parts:

• All the PhixFlow data and items (files) are stored in a database on a server
• As a user, you run the PhixFlow client in a web browser using the URL provided by your administrator.

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Overview

PhixFlow is a low-code application development tool. PhixFlow's visual design process means you can use drag-and-drop techniques to easily create everything you need to make a fully-functional application. 

1. Creating an Application: Easily set up new application, setup your application using its properties; see Application Properties.
2. Define Your Data: Set up Entity Relationship Diagrams to define the data that backs your application.
3. Build the Screens: Designing Screens that allow users to interact with your data. Build screens using drag and drop templates or define your own screens using CSS.
4. Setup Actionflows: Actionflows control the interactions users can perform with your application and its data.
5. Analyse Data: Use analysis models to bulk process large data sets and create integrations with your data sources.

Where you may need to add code, PhixFlow provides fields for Expressions and PhixScripts.

Getting Started

When you first log in, PhixFlow opens the Welcome window, listing all the applications available to you:

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Opening Applications

1. Click anywhere in a card to open the application.
2. PhixFlow asks you to confirm. Click Yes to continue to the application's Home window. From here you can select an aspect of your application on which to work.

For information about the Create New button see: Creating an Application

Return to the Welcome window

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  : use this mode to create applications. This includes designing screens, creating workflows and actionflows, defining data structure and relationships. You can also set up complex bulk data processing using analysis models.
  We recommend that you use design mode on a desktop computer as you require screen space to build analysis models and design application screens.

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  : use this mode to run your PhixFlow applications. Applications can be designed to be used on:
  • desktop or laptop computers
  • mobile device, such as tablet or smartphone.

Administrators can set up PhixFlow so that application users never see 

When you run the PhixFlow client in a browser, the PhixFlow window has:

• The PhixFlow header bar. On the left the header bar has:

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     icon, which opens the Welcome window. This is present in both desktop and mobile views.
  • the PhixFlow name and logo,

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    . This is present in desktop views, provide your system has not been configured to show your company's logo instead. You can click the PhixFlow logo to open the Welcome window. 
• Below the header bar is a menu bar specific to the currently loaded open application.

For more details about the layout of PhixFlow's windows, see PhixFlow's Interface.

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