Creating a New

Application

To create a new application:

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Click the last card, which is the New Application card:

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When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates a menu item for it. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch → application_name_Menu. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the menu bar at the top of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.

Application Properties

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About

Navigation

Menus

This section lists the menus and the associated actionflows or stream item actions?? that have been created for your application.

At the bottom of the list are the Delete ??add icon and Add ??add icon buttons.

Previous functionality. How done now... Check Menu page?? The ticked menu is used as the menu bar for the application.

The A default menu is created automatically with the applcation. 

Adding a menu process??

Link to Menu page??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 will display in the default menu in the menu bar:

• once options have been added
• and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).

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:You can also use the context menu

Use the buttons below the list to:

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   add another menu to the list; see Menu properties

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   delete the menu from this application.

Additional options related to user navigation are:

Access Permissions

For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.

Style Settings

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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:

1. Click

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    to list all the packages in the repository.
2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button  

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

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  : create a new style.

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Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu 

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When you run PhixFlow in 

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 without loading an application, you will see the PhixFlow logo and text in the top left of the window. You can click this area to open the  

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. The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.

When you run PhixFlow in either 

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 or 

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, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the 

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 opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow.  

To open the 

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at any time:

• either click on the logo/name in the top left of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo and name  .
• or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo .

Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, below.

The 

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 lists the available applications as cards, for example:

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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. Then click the 3-dot icon   icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

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

Context Menu Options