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You can add these components directly onto a dashboard or dashboard element, or onto a container componentPhixFlow automatically adds a card container and a card.For views with no specific format, you can bind the view to a container component on a dashboard, then drag specific attributes onto contained components, such as fields. Container components are:
Step 1 Select a
stream and data componenttable
- Drag a stream onto a dashboard. This is the stream on which you want to base your view. You can drag:a stream table onto a screen, this can be achieved by dragging
- a table from the list in the repository.
- a table icon from a streamtable's icon from its properties tab.
- PhixFlow prompts you to asks you how you want the data to be displayed, select a data component to display the view:
- The view will be added to the screen.
Step 2 Select attributes
- Drag attributes from the Attribute Selection window onto a componentthe view.
- Start with attributes from the base stream.
- Optionally, click on related streams to show additional attributes that are available.
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- When you have added all the attributes you require, close the window.
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4 Select the data componentWhen you start by dragging a data component from the palette, or you drag onto an existing data component, PhixFlow knows how what type of view you are creating.
When you start by dragging an attribute onto an area or container, PhixFlow does not know the view type. In this case, when you drop the attribute, PhixFlow prompts you to select the type.
Click an option to add a component for a grid, graph, chart or card, which will fit the available space in the parent component. Select Form to set the parent as a form component, which is bound to the data view. PhixFlow adds a field to display the attribute being dropped.
Step 53 Apply filtering and sorting for records
You have now created a data component your view and added it is bound to dataa screen. Optionally, specify if you want to create or apply any filters or sort orders to the data records; see Filtering and Sorting Data.Click Finish:
- Select the view you have added.
- You may need to right click the view and select Show Stream View Configuration.
- The properties tab opens:
- Select an existing Default Sort Order, Default Filter or Background Filter
- Note the filter are applied when the use sees the view, however the default view can be removed by the user.
Select a data component from the popup menu:
In the Attribute Selection window:
- on the right select related streams
- on the left, select specific attributes from the stream.
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Reusing Views
Once you have created a view, you can reuse it. In the repository, you can find a view listed under it's base stream.
Form Field Names
When you drag attributes from the Attribute Selection window onto a form, PhixFlow adds a field and label for each attribute. By default, the label is the attribute's name. However, for an attribute in a related stream, this depends on the Display Name option. For example:
Primary key → Foreign key
stream.attribute → related-stream.attribute
Company.UID → Supplier.Company-Name
Where Supplier.Company-Name has Display Name:
- selected, PhixFlow uses "Company-Name" as the label.
- not selected, PhixFlow uses "UID" as the label.
For information about primary and foreign keys and the Display Name option; see Understanding ERDs and Views.
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When the component has data bound to it, the
Step 2 Select a parent stream
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