This page provides details of the properties for a palette, which is part of an screen design.
Overview
A palette provides quick access to set of configured templates, which you can dragging onto a screen canvas to easily create application screens.
PhixFlow comes with two default palettes:
- Basic Components: contains all basic layout components, such as String Field and CheckBox without any additional labels and styling.
- Labelled Fields: contains a set of predefined form fields that have configurable labels. This is the palette to use when designing application forms.
When you create an application, you can select a package template. This sets the default styles and palette for the application; see About Template Packages. To make additional palettes available to an application, add it to the application's packages.
When you are designing screens, PhixFlow displays a list of the available palettes. You can expand a palette and drag components from the palette onto the screen.
To add your own components to an existing palette:
- convert your components and layouts to a template: see Adding Components to a Palette.
- Drag the template into the Components section of the palette properties.
You can also create your own palette; see Creating a Palette.
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Basic Settings
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| Name | Name of the palette. |
| Help URL | For palettes supplied by PhixFlow, this URL links to the help page about the palette. If you create your own palette, add a link to additional information to help people to use your palette. PhixFlow displays the palette header bar with a icon which links to the URL specified here. |
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Components
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons.
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to open the full repository list of Templates. If you want to see only templates from your application, find your application → Templates.
Drag in the templates you want to appear in this group.
Palette Groups
Use palette groups to organise your components in the palette.
To add a palette group to your palette:
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- PhixFlow opens the Palette Group properties.
- Set the name and order. Add the components you require.
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To remove a group from the palette, use the
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Pallet Group Properties
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| Name | Name of the palette group. |
| Order | Enter a number to specify where this group appears in the palette. |
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| Description | Tooltip Enter a tooltip. This will be displayed when a user hovers their mouse pointer over the palette group. Description Enter a description for this palette group. |
 Audit Tab
Audit Summary
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Description
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| Tooltip | The description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette. |
| Description | We recommend you always add a description of this palette. |