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This page is for data modellers and application designers who want to configure options that appear in a view component's header.
Overview
A view component on a screen is designed with a header bar. The options in the header bar are listed as Menu Items in the view properties. This page explains the properties for a menu item. Usually, these properties are set automatically when you drag a table-action or actionflow onto a view component's header; see the View properties, Menu Items section for details.
You can also create a new menu item, via the view properties → Actions tab → Menu Item grid, which opens the menu item properties.
Menu items can act like buttons or like menus.
PhixFlow messages may refer to menu items as buttons. This is because single options on the header act like a button. When the application user clicks the option, PhixFlow runs the associate action. Where the option opens a list of sub-options,
Single option:
- For a single option on the header bar, when the application user clicks the option, PhixFlow runs the associate action. This acts like a button.
For this reason, PhixFlow messages related to menu items often refer to buttons. - Nested options: when the option on the header opens a For nested options on the header bar, when the application user clicks the top-level option, PhixFlow open the list of sub-options, it . In this case, the option acts like a menu.
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Basic Settings
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Click Action | Select the type of action that PhixFlow will run when the user clicks on the option.
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| Actionflow | Available when Click Action is Actionflow. You must save a new menu item before setting this property. To add an actionflow:
To create a new actionflow, click
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| Action | Available when Click Action is Stream Action. To add a table-action:
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| Name | Available for sub-menus. Enter a name that PhixFlow uses to store this menu item. Use this name if you need to refer to this menu item elsewhere in PhixFlow. This is not the text that appears to the application user. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Display Name | Enter the option text that an application user sees in the view header, or sub-menu. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Order | Specify a number that is the order that the menu item appears:
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| Menu Items | Available for sub-menus. The grid lists the menu items nested in this menu item. To add more menu items, click
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Learn More
- View
- Table
- Understanding Data Views
- Viewing Data in a Table
- Configuring Actions
- Using Table Actions
- Understanding Actionflows
For links to all pages in this topic, see Designing Screens.
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