This page describes the sections and toolbars that occur on many property panes.

Overview

Items that you create in PhixFlow have properties, which are displayed in a panel on the right of the screen. Many items properties, toolbars or features in common.

Depending on the item, a property pane may have multiple tabs

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  : set properties specific to this item.

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  : design the appearance of items such as components on a screen; see Designing Screens and Style properties.

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  : configure user-interaction functionality on items such as tables or components; see Configuring Actions.

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  : manage which users can access this item; see Access Permissions, below.  

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  : keep track of changes that have happened to an item; see Audit Summary, below.

Where a property is the name of another item, it will have the option to 

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The screenshot on the right shows how the common sections appear in the properties pane.

Parent Details 

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Many items in models and applications are either "contained" within or belong to another item. For example, a  view belongs to a table. The Parent Details section includes the containing item's type and name.

Parent Details → Container

For some items, the Parent Details section lists the things that use this item and that you have permission to view, such as:

• modelling objects

• layout components

• applications

• packages.

This list does not include analysis models as these are listed in the Analysis Models section. Click on a name to open its properties tab.

To open the properties for the parent item, click the Container header.

Analysis Models 

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PhixFlow lists the analysis models that use this modelling object. Double-click on a model name to open the model.

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Audit Summary 

PhixFlow logs the changes to an object's settings, including:

• the data and time.

• who made the change

• a brief description of the change.

This is shown in the screenshot on the right. The audit summary is a useful if you need to reverse changes made by mistake. Each audit entry shows both the new and old values. In the case of text fields, simply copy the old value and paste it into the form field. You can also see audit summaries on the system console; see the System Console section Audit Summary. 

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Access Permissions 

For some items, you can specify a set of user groups. A user who belongs to a user group has permission to see the item.

Toolbars and Controls 

Properties are shown in an panel on the right. To show/hide the right panel, use the slider: 

PhixFlow uses the same area on the right to show multiple property panes as tabs. If you want to display any of these tabs side-by side, drag a tab to the left side of the panel.

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Main Properties Toolbar

Property panes have a toolbar at the top.  Depending on the item and its state, the toolbar can include the following options.

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Insert excerpt _delete _delete nopanel true	Delete the current item. Delete is: permanent as there is no "undo" option everywhere, so if the object is used elsewhere, it is also deleted there.
Insert excerpt _close _close nopanel true	Close the properties Tab. Also use the x on the tab itself.

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Insert excerpt _finish _finish nopanel true	Save the current properties and close the tab.
Insert excerpt _save _save nopanel true	Save the current properties and keep the tab open.
Display	For items that have associated diagrams, such as screens, ERDs or analysis models, open the diagram.
Insert excerpt _back _back nopanel true	Toggle between the current property tab and one that was previously open.
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Insert excerpt _repository_find _repository_find nopanel true	Bring the repository tab to the front, filtered to show this item.  You may need to scroll the explorer to see the selected item.
Insert excerpt _collapse_all _collapse_all nopanel true	Collapse all the sections in the property tab.
Insert excerpt _help _help nopanel true	Open the reference help page for this item's properties.

Property Section Toolbars 

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Each property tab can contain a number of sections.  Each section has a header with a small arrow before the section label. Click the arrow to:

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   the section

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   the section.

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Some sections contain fields whereas other sections can contain grids.  Sections which contain grids may have a number of icons on them to allow you to add and delete records, see a more detailed grid with more columns or refresh the current grid.

Tooltips in Property Grids

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For example in the action properties you can see tooltips for expressions in:

• Context Parameters

• Task Plan Rules.