Overview

PhixFlow allows you to create navigation menus that always appear. This allows for a single menu to be setup that can be accessed from any point in an application. It is also possible to setup a menu that only displays when called, for example if you create a configuration menu for your application that is only shown when the user clicks a button.

An application menu, in version 9.0+ of PhixFlow, is configured as a screen and as such can be positioned in different places on the screen. Template menus are provided within the Template Packages that are styled to fit with the look and feel of the rest of the items in the template package. See Installing Template Packages if you need to install one.

Create a Custom Menu

1. From the Screens home page click Add New.
2. Complete the details:
   • Name, indicative of the menu being created.
   • Open Maximised, Untick. We will specify the size of our menu later.
   • Menu section, scroll through the templates and click on the desired navigation menu.
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3. Click Create Screen.
4. The screen opens
5. Click Properties from the toolbar.
   • Untick Allow Manual Resizing
   • Set Position to Pinned to... the position of your menu. For example Pinned to Top.
   Height / Width, set the height or width

   • Set the Height and Width for your menu item. We suggest:

   Typically 45px height

   • • for top menus

   and 250px width

   • • : height of 45px

     • for side menus
   . However you can amend these to suit your design. 
6. Note that for horizontal menus dropdown buttons will not work. We are working hard to improve this in a future release. If you need a menu with dropdowns see Startup Actions.
7. Save your changes, and it will be necessary to close and reopen the menu to see the updates.
8. • • : width of 250px
9. Save your changes.
10. Close and reopen the menu to see the updates.

Adding Menu Options

To add buttons to your navigation menu that open a screen:

1. Find the screen in the repository.
2. Drag the screen onto the menu bar.
3. Provide a display name for the button and continue
4. PhixFlow adds the menu button and automatically creates the actionflow.The action flow can be edited by right clicking

To  edit the actionflow, right-click the button and

select Display Actionflow

; see Understanding Actionflows

.

When

an application user clicks the menu button, the screen opens automatically.

Automatically Display a Menu

To automatically show a navigation menu when an application starts up we use, Startup Actions, which are set to run when an application opens:

In the repository navigate to the startup section and add a new startup action using the 

Tick Default Desktop Action, if you want this to be for desktop devices.

Tick Default Mobile Action, if you want this to be for mobile devices.

Action Method, select the actionflow that opens your navigation menu screen. If you hae not yet created one use the 

Save your changes and now when you open your application the avigation bar will appear.