Use the options to set:

• whether you want a menu bar, and which menu options appear there. We are promoting the user creating bespoke menus.
• access privileges to specify which users can use the application.
• the template that your application uses.
• data formats, if you do not want to use the PhixFlow defaults.
• any packages containing shared resources that your application can use; see Package.

Application Properties

Basic Settings

Style Settings

When you drag a stream or view onto a dashboard canvas, and select a grid component to display the stream data, PhixFlow adds a grid. In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set the following:

• Grid Header Style

• Grid Header Button Style

• Grid Header Icon Style

• Grid Header Drop-down Button Style

• Grid header Drop-down Pane Style

• Grid Paging Style

• Grid Row Style

• Grid Column Header Style

• Row Selection Style

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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   to show available styles

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   to create a new style; see Style.

The styles you select override any styles set in System Configuration. You can override these defaults for individual grids using the style settings in the View properties.

Default Components

In this section, select an appropriate component for PhixFlow to add when you drag attributes onto a form or card container. For information about data types see Understanding Data Types.

• String
• Bigstring
• Long
• Float
• Decimal
• True/False
• Date
• DateTime

Also set the styling for the containers:

• form
• card

And select a default:

• action
  This action runs when the user initially opens an application. For example, you could set the the default action to display a welcome screen.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have actionflows or stream-item-actions that can be applied for this application.

PhixFlow automatically creates a default menu when you create the application project. PhixFlow will display in the default menu in the menu bar:

• once you have added options to the menu
• and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).

If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.

You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices. Right-click on a line in the list to show the pop-up menu options:

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  _menu_desktop _menu_desktop nopanel true

  : use this menu on desktop devices. The grid shows the desktop icon next to the menu name.

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  _menu_mobile _menu_mobile nopanel true

  : use this menu on mobile devices. The grid shows the mobile icon next to the menu name.

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  _new _new nopanel true

   create another menu to the list; see Menu properties.

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  _delete _delete nopanel true

   delete the menu from this application.

Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages. A package is a bundle of PhixFlow items that are shared between multiple applications; see Understanding Palettes and Themes. When you export/import an application to another PhixFlow instance, it is important to export/import all packages with the application. One package will include your applications theme settings. To add another package to this 

1. Click

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    to list all the packages in the repository.
2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button  

See also:

• Understanding Palettes and Themes
• Moving Between Instances

Field

Theme

Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto the screen. This should explain that they come from the selected template when creating an application, a template that has been associated with the application or any local palettes. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running. What does this mean?

If the container application for is not running, PhixFlow uses: 

• either the default palette set for the area.

• or the default palette for the destination application when you are dragging stream attributes into a screen for a different (destination) application that is running.

If you do not set a palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette.

You can change style settings:

• in the template components in the palette
• create shared styles
• set styles on individual components

See Shared Styles and Style Order