on the right of the menu bar at the top of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.
For information about sharing components or data between applications, see Package.
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Default Date/Time Format | Select the default format for DateTime attributes and components. |
Default Number Format | Select the default format for numbers. |
Default Component Palette | Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto a layout or area. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running. If the container application for is not running, PhixFlow uses:
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Application Icon | Select an uploaded image to use in the application menu card for this application. We recommend an image size of approximately: - height: up to 100 pixels
- width: 100 to 150 pixels.
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Application Logo | Select an uploaded image to provide customised branding for the application. When a user clicks this image, it will open the application menu. We recommend an image size of approximately: - height: up to 40 pixels
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Style Settings
In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:
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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- : create a new style.
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. 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. In the grid, right-click a menu to display the context menu and select:
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PhixFlow displays the mobile or desktop icon next to the application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the Application application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:
You can also use the context menu to:
Access Permissions
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All Users Can View ApplicationFor details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.
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:
- Click to list all the packages in the repository.
- Drag packages into this list.
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Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:
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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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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:
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application card | Load application in a New Tab | Open a new browser tab with the selected application loaded. |
application card | Load Application in a New Window | Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded. |
repository application name | Filter by Name | In the repository browser, use the application name to display only the repository tree for the selected application. The application is not loaded. |
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