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This page is for application designers who want to add a button that opens a different screen.

When using your application, the application user needs to be able to navigate to different screens. You can provide navigation to different screens using:

• menus; see Adding a Navigation Menu Bar.
• buttons that open a different screen. In this case you must configure an actionflow for the button. 

PhixFlow provides an easy way to wire a button to an actionflow that opens a screen.

1. Open the screen on which you want to add the button.
2. Right-click and 

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   the screen.
3. In the repository, find the screen that you want the button to open. Drag the screen onto the canvas . and drop it where you want the button to be.
4. PhixFlow adds a button to the screen canvas.
   The button design is from the default component, which is set in the application properties → Styles tab → Default Components section→ Table Action Component.
5. PhixFlow also creates an actionflow to open the second screen and wires it to the button.
6. To test the button, either

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   the  the screen or switch to

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   . Click the button to check that it opens the required screen.

Learn More

• If PhixFlow puts the button in the wrong place, you can move it; see Moving Components on a Screen.
• You can check the actionflow configuration or add additional functionality to the button; see see Wiring Actionflows.
• You can also add user interaction to charts and grids; see see Actions on Grids and Charts.
• To add navigation menus, see Adding a Navigation Menu Bar.
• For applications made in version 8.3 or earlier, PhixFlow provided table-actions or record-actions instead of actionflows; see Using Table-Actions.