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see Designing Screens

A workflow item that represents a screen which either exists or is a place holder for a future screen. These are designed to represent touch points with users in your business process. For this reason it is possible to have the same screen on a workflow multiple time and to give the instance of the screen a specific name.

Double-clicking this icon opens the screen if one exists or prompts you to create a new one if it does not exist. 

see Understanding Actionflows

This represents an actionflow in your application. When a new  actionflow is dragged onto a Workflow from the toolbar, PhixFlow immediately creates it in your application.

Double-clicking the actionflow opens the instance.

see Creating Workflows

This represents an entire workflow. Placed within a workflow it represents a separate embedded workflow that covers a different business process.

Double-clicking the workflow opens the embedded workflow in a new tab.

see Analysis Models for Batch Processing Data

This represents an analysis model.

Double-clicking the analysis model opens it in a new tab.

Provides a representation of an activity which occurs outside of PhixFlow, such as a user receiving an email. Clicking on this option on a toolbar provides a dropdown of common external tasks with associated icons. Custom icons will be provided in the future.

An input Datasource

The node where the connector originates.

Target

The node where the connector terminates.

Type

Sequence Flow: defines the execution order of the activities within a workflow.

Message Flow: indicates a flow of messages between nodes that send and receive them.

Association: is used to associate nonflow nodes with nodes participating directly in the workflow. 

Label

Text displayed o the connecting lines to indicate the role of the connector.

Dash Array

Determines the size of the dashes and gaps of a connecting line. The value entered needs to be a whole number and is interpreted as a pixel size.