Application Properties

Basic Settings

Style Settings

When you drag a stream or view onto a dashboard canvas, and select a grid component to display the stream data, PhixFlow adds a grid. In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set the following:

• Grid Header Style

• Grid Header Button Style

• Grid Header Icon Style

• Grid Header Drop-down Button Style

• Grid header Drop-down Pane Style

• Grid Paging Style

• Grid Row Style

• Grid Column Header Style

• Row Selection Style

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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   to show available styles

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   to create a new style; see Style.

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 View properties.

Default Components

In this section, select an appropriate component for PhixFlow to add when you drag attributes onto a form or card container. For information about data types see Understanding Data Types.

• String
• Bigstring
• Long Todo-Fiona - what is this?
• Float
• Decimal
• True/False
• Date
• DateTime

Also set the styling for the containers:

• form
• card

And select a default:

• action
  This action runs when the user initially opens an application. For example, you could set the the default action to display a welcome screen.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have actionflows or stream-item-actions that can be applied for this application.

PhixFlow automatically creates a default menu when you create the application project. PhixFlow will display in the default menu in the menu bar:

• once you have added options to the menu
• and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).

If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.

You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices.  Todo-Fiona - check with UX team - should their also be a tick box in the menu properties for the default  menu? RightRight-click on a line in the list to show the pop-up menu options:

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  : use this menu on desktop devices. The grid shows the desktop icon next to the menu name.

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  : use this menu on mobile devices. The grid shows the mobile icon next to the menu name.

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   create another menu to the list; see Menu properties.

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   delete the menu from this application.

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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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Todo-Fiona - link to info about template packages that act as themes - ask Anthony.

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Todo-Fiona - check that the following are UX options not yet implemented

Additional options related to user navigation are:

Application Menu and Context Menus 

Todo-Fiona - confirm that this is covered elsewhere and link to it from the overview.

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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, 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 

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• 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 

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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, then click the 

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   icon, which is displayed in the top right. 

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.

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Pop-up Menu Options

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Not yet implemented This page lists the application properties. To access the application properties: either go the the application Home window and use the link in the top right of the window or open its properties from the repository.