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Use your PhixFlow sandbox to make a simple application. This application will have a single screen, called a layout, that displays data and lets you create, read, update or delete (CRUD) data records. You can additionally add comments.

Some things are already set up for you:

• a simple model to provide the data.
• a palette of components that you can drag onto the layout.
• styles that control the colours and appearance of the screen.

Remember that you can:

• build models using your own data stored in external databases or files. The Introduction to Modelling Course teaches you how to do this.
• set up your own styles and palettes to create completely customised layouts. The Building Applications Course goes through this process.

1. Add buttons for actions
   1. Add a "floating" form to add a description.
   2. Add the action to update stream
   3. Show the form in action - that is is always on top, and that save also closes the pop-up. 
2. Linking forms together
   1. Add a comments stream to the model
   2. Add comment cards
   3. As layouts are not a fixed structure, but "flow" their order in the repository is important. To reorder an item, you don't drag it in the layout, but in the repository.
   4. Add actions to the card
   5. Show the audit attributes on the card
   6. Add comments on the card.

Create a Comments Stream

Set Period to: Transactional.

Set Audit Manual Changes to: Ticked

Add the following attrinbutes:

BusinessUID as an Integer

BusinessName as a String of Size 100

Comment as a Big String

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1. Run the Stream

Create a new Dashboard to manage our data

Add the Businesses as a Grid to the dashboard

Split dashboard vertically

This is a place holder for the Comments

Split left area horizontally

First Tab is for Business Details

From the Theme 1 Template drag a “Form Inner” onto the display area

Drag the attributes from the Business Stream onto the left column

Drag Description onto the right side.

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From the Businesses Grid, drag the UID down onto the Business Detail form.

This creates a link, so the selected Business Is displayed.

Second Tab is for Contact Details

To be completed once we import the contact details.

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Right click on the Comments column and create a form.

Set the form to Stream Comments created in 2d

From the Palette Theme 1 Template drag the item: Comment Header, onto the new form.

From the Palette App Builder Labelled drag the item: Card Container, onto the new form.

From the Palette Theme 1 Template drag the item: Comment Card, onto the small white card in the CardContainer.

Hold shift while doing this so the items is embedded.

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Add a dashboard

Create a Dashboard, this will be used to edit our comments.

Create a new form.

From the Palette Theme 1 Template drag the item: Form Floating, onto the new form.

From the Repository delete:

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Column 2

Drag the following attributes from the Comments Stream onto content container:

UID

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BusinessUID

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Comment

Give the header a sensible name and delete the dynamic text

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New Comment 

From the repository drag the new Comment Dashboard onto the + on the Comments header.

Drag the UID from the Businesses Grid created in 2b onto the + on the Comments header.

Set this up to map to BusinessUID

Go into the action by right clicking the button and select Action Edit*

Create a Context variable for UID set this to _NULL

Open the Comments Stream

Create a new action, this is the same as the setup for the aforementioned but UID is set to Busineses.UID

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Title  Anchor1616textPhixFlow is a flexible platform that can help you to manage your data. This Quick Start Guide introduces the process you can follow to build an application:

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Watch the Video

To illustrate the process, you will create an application that looks like this:

Check Your Setup

Before starting, log into PhixFlow. In the bottom right, click 

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If you do not have the palette, you or your administrator can import it.

Now you can get started with step 1 - set up an application container.