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titleAdd a Form
  1. Right-click on the dashboard and click Dashboard Options then click 
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    . You can adjust how far up the screen the bar should be. PhixFlow automatically adds a scroll bar to the data table.
  2. Right-click on the lower white area, and select Create New Form, and enter the name Business Entry Form.
    PhixFlow adds an empty blue form area.
  3. In the bottom right of the PhixFlow window, click on the 
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     icon and expand the section pft1 AppBuilder (Theme 1).
    A palette is a set of pre-made components, that make it quick and easy to lay out a form.
  4. Drag in Form Title and name it Title.
    This adds a header area to the form.
  5. Drag in Form Body and name it Business Body.
    This adds a split area and buttons to the form, which now looks like this:
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titleAdd fields to the form
  1. Click on the BusinessData stream properties tab.
  2. In the stream properties, select the attributes UID through to Active
  3. Shift-drag the attributes onto the left area.
    PhixFlow creates a set of form fields for the attributes.
  4. Shift-drag the Description attribute onto the right area. 
    PhixFlow creates a field for the description. As this attribute has the type "bigstring", PhixFlow creates a field with an  editing toolbar, to make it easy to edit the description text.Your form should now look like this:
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The form is displaying the first data record. If you select different data records in the table, the form display does not change. But you want the form to display the currently selected record. To make this happen you need to connect the form to the data.

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titleLink the form with the data

To display the company name in the form title:

  1. In the dashboard, click on Header Fixed and change its properties → Display Text  to Business Details Details - and 
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  2. In the dashboard,click on Dynamic and change its properties → Name to be: Name
    As PhixFlow knows there is an attribute called "Name", it will use the name value of the currently selected record in the  "Dynamic" area.
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  3. Hover over the UID column header and drag the filter symbol onto the form and confirm.
    This tells PhixFlow that the form should display the selected record in the grid.

  4.  PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the filter. Click 
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     to close it.

  5. Now when you select a different record in the table, PhixFlow displays the selected record in the form.

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