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You can display the charts generated by stream views in dashboards. You can also generate some types of charts without using a dashboard. For example, you can view the contents of a stream set in a grid; see Stream Set List.
Chart type: Data Grid
A data grid displays the data in a table format. To open the properties for a data record in the grid, double-click on its row.
Details for an individual stream item can be viewed by double clicking on a row. This displays details of the selected stream item (data record).
Chart buttons
Charts provides the standard grid icons.
They also provides the following icons:
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Refresh the chart.
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Select an existing (or predefined) Filter or create, delete and modify Filters. This causes the chart to refresh and display only those entries which match the selected Filter.
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Select an existing (or predefined) multi-column Sort Order or create, delete and modify Sort Orders. Note that data is ordered across all records which are implied by the Filter, not just the current page of data.
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Opens the download data form allowing the user to export just the selected items or all data on the chart as either an Excel file, a CSV (comma separated) file or as an HTML document.
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Display the number of records in the data, and the number of records currently being displayed.
Grid Context Menus
Right-click on a data grid to open the context menu. The options available depend on whether you right-click in the header row or in a grid row.
Header Context Menu
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Use these options to expand or collapse grid columns in a dashboard.
Hidden columns do not appear in the grid. To re-show a hidden column, right-click any grid row and select Show Attributes for View <viewName> → Hide this column
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Row Context Menu
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Opens a list of all of the attributes (column headers) for this stream view. Attributes formatted in italics are present in the stream but are hidden in the grid.
To change whether an attribute is hidden or visible, right-click the attribute and select Show this column or Hide this column.
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A dashboard allows you to gather into a single view a set of charts.
This grouping of related reports and statistics provides the users with pre-configured overviews of selected areas, making all the data that is required to view and monitor the health of the system both accessible and easy to read.
Any number of dashboards can be constructed by dragging predefined Stream Views onto a dashboard pane.
Things added to the dashboard in this way are known as dashboard elements. Dashboard elements are given short names which can then be used in expressions to refer to items selected in those Stream Views.
Dashboard Properties
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Basic Settings
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| Name | The name of the dashboardscreen. |
| Open Maximised | If ticked, the dashboard screen opens fills the whole screen when it is opened. |
| Allow User to Resize | If ticked, the user can change the size of the dashboard screen while in app mode. All designers can still change |
| Show Toolbar | Show the toolbar on the dashboardscreen. |
| Always On Top | Always keep the dashboard screen on top. |
| Keep Data | If ticked, the dashboard screen data is available and can be referenced even after the dashboard screen is closed. It can be used if the user wants to store global data available in the system. |
| Preload | If ticked, PhixFlow preloads the dashboard screen as it is setting up. Preloading adds to PhixFlow's setup time. When the user then opens the dashboardscreen, the layout displays immediately. The data itself may still take time to load. Use this option for dashboards screens that the user will always want to open when they use PhixFlow. |
| Cache Locally | If ticked, PhixFlow does not preload the dashboardscreen. Instead, when the user opens the dashboard screen for the first time, PhixFlow caches it on the client computer. When the user closes and reopens the dashboardscreen, the layout loads immediately. The data itself may still loads from the server. Use this option for dashboards screens that a user may want to open. |
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Screen Elements
A list of the dashboard screen elements on this dashboardscreen.
Access Permissions
For details about how to control access to a dashboardscreen, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.
User Groups
A list of the user groups which can view this dashboardscreen. This tab is only shown if All Users Can View Data is not selected.
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Screen Options
To edit a dashboardscreen, right-click and select Unlock Layout.
Splitter Bars
The dashboard screen area can be divided into multiple, resizing panes by adding vertical or horizontal splitter bars. Right click the pane or any element on the pane to:
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Splitter bars can be removed by right clicking on an empty pane and selecting Delete Pane.
Add Element
An element can be added to a dashboard screen by dragging predefined Stream Views onto the dashboard screen pane.
Remove Element
You can remove an element from the dashboard screen by right clicking on the view and going to Dashboard screen Options → Remove Element From Dashboardscreen
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Screen Elements
You can link Dashboard screen views together so that the contents of one view are filtered based on items selected in a "Driver" view.
A grid view (grids only) will be automatically made a "Driver", if any of the filter expressions in any of the dashboard screen elements reference the view by name.
To make a Dashboard screen element dependent upon the Driver view, set it up with a Filter which uses at least one condition with an expression containing the drivers view name. i.e ACCTS. When the Filter is evaluated, the view name ACCTS notation will contain the rows selected on the Driver view. An example condition expression is:
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Where AccountNumber is an Attribute on the Driver view.
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Screen Context Menu
Right-click on a dashboard screen to display the context menu for it.
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| Toggle whether or not the currently selected component is automatically autosized when an application window is resized by the user.
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| Show Attributes for <stream name> | Open the list of attributes for the stream. This option is available when a dashboard screen has a backing stream. | ||||||||||
| Show Attributes for <view name> | Open the list of attributes for the stream view. This option is available when a dashboard screen has a backing view as well as a backing stream |
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