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This page is for PhixFlow application developers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.

Overview

The application is an object which defines the PhixFlow instance's properties like its menu bar.

There are several ways to load an application. You can:

  • click the PhixFlow logo to open the application menu; see Application, below.
  • in the repository, right-click on the application name and select 
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  • in a browser, enter the application URL; see Starting PhixFlow on the Client. When PhixFlow is started in this way, you can still navigate to other applications that you have permission to access.

When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates its menu. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch. The menu item has the application name with the _Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top bar; see Menu.


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Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameThe name of the application.
VersionThe version number of the application.
Default Date FormatSelect the default format for Date attributes and components.

Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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: shows the formats available for this application in the repository.

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Default Date/Time FormatSelect the default format for DateTime attributes and components.
Default Number FormatSelect the default format for numbers.
Default Component Palette

Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto a layout or area. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running.


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 layout for a different (destination) application that is running.

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

Style Settings

In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:

  • 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

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 Stream View properties.

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

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    : create a new style.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. 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. In the grid, right-click a menu to display the context menu and select:

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PhixFlow displays the mobile or desktop icon next to the application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the Application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:

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    : delete the menu from this application.

Access Permissions

FieldDescription
All Users Can View Application

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 all users can view this application.

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 to specify the user groups that can access this application.

User Groups

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The grid contains a list of user groups that have permission to access to this application. To add a user group to the list:

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  2. Drag user groups into this list. 

To remove a user group from the list, use the

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 in the toolbar.

Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages that contain this application. To add an application to the list:

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  2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the

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Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

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, you can open the Application menu which if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the Application menu opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow. The Application menu lists all the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance. To

You can open the Application menu , at any time.

  • Either click on the PhixFlow logo and name  Image Modified, in the top left of the PhixFlow screen.
An application can be
  • Or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar
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  • , click the PhixFlow logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen.

The applications are shown in cards, for example:

Application Card Context Menu

Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:

  • either right-click anywhere in the card
  • or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right.
    Click the 3-dot icon   icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.

Context Menu Options

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application card and
repository application name


Load Application
Load the selected application so that it is running in 
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application cardLoad application in a New TabOpen a new browser tab with the selected application loaded.
application cardLoad Application in a New WindowOpen a new browser window with the selected application loaded.
repository application nameFilter by NameIn the repository browser, use the application name to display only the repository tree for the selected application. The application is not loaded.
repository application nameEdit
In
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Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.