Editing Palettes
You can create new palettes and edit existing ones.
To create a palette and add components:
- Right-click the repository branch → Application → Palette and select .
Add items to a palette by dragging a layout template onto it.- PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the palette. Name the palette and save it.
- In the Layouts section, click the
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button to see all the layout templates in the repository. - Drag layouts into the palette properties.
- To use a layout template as a Default Component, drag it from the repository into the To set the default component for the palette, you can drag the components onto the corresponding field
Remove items from a palette by right-clicking on the item in the palette and selecting Permanently Delete. This does not remove the layout template from the repository, but just removes the layout from this palette.
Palette Properties
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For each palette, the following settings are configured.
Basic Settings
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| Name | Name of the palette. |
Layouts
A list of of the layout components that this palette contains. Press Show the list of Templates to bring up the list of layout templates.This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and | Insert excerpt |
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The grid contains a list of layout components that this palette contains. To add a layout to the list:
- Click
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to list all the layout components in the repository. - Drag layout components into this list to add them to the palette.
To remove a layout component template from the palette, use the
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in the toolbar.
Default Components
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| String Component |
For each type of layout, select a default component Add a layout template - either select one from the drop-down list.
- or drag in a layout template from the repository list, opened from the Layouts section toolbar:
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| Bigstring Component |
| Long Component |
| Float Component |
| True/False Component |
| Date Component |
| DateTime Component |
| Action Component |
| Form Component |
| Card Component |
Description
| Field | Description |
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| Tooltip | The description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette. |
| Description | Description of this palette. |