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This page is for application designers who want The ERD Fundamentals video shows how to create a screen directly from a stream in within an ERD, see Entity Relationship Diagrams.In your application project's Home window, you can select to work on data or on designing a screen. However, at some point you will want to create a screen and connect it to your data. Within an ERD you can directly create a screen and display data on it. 

Create a Screen

1. In an ERD, select a stream table that contains data you want to show on a screen.In the toolbar, click Screen from the Create section.
2. Create a screen using one of the following options:
   • On the toolbar click

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   • Right-click on your table and click Create Screen.
   • In a table's header, click 

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       and click Create Screen. 
3. PhixFlow guides you through the process of creating a screen.
   Select a template
   1. Enter the Name for the new screen
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   1. Select a Template for the
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   1. screen's design. This can be edited at a later date.
   1. PhixFlow creates the screen using the selected template.Select attributes as follows.
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   2. Drag the desired attributes onto the screen and drop them onto one of the areas highlighted in light blue.When you drop the attribute, PhixFlow asks how you want the data to be displayed. Click an option to add a component for a them where you want them to appear.

   3. PhixFlow prompts you to select a format for how to display data:
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   4. Select an option to display the data as a grid, graph, chart or card, which will fit the available space in the parent component.
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      Select Form to set the parent as a form component, which is bound to the data view. PhixFlow adds a field to display the attribute being dropped.

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      Work on one component at a time. So if you start adding fields to one area, add all the fields you need to this area and complete. As you drag subsequent attributes, PhixFlow highlights the same area. There are some data binding logic rules that we may wish to discuss here, let's discuss.

   5. When you click Next, you can set sort and filter options for the data records in the view.

   This process creates a data component that is bound to a data view and opens its properties; see Viewing Data in a Table

   1. , set of cards or input form.

      • Select Form to create input fields and back the screen with the table.
        PhixFlow recognises that you are creating an input form and offers to create the Save and Delete actions. You can drag the actions onto buttons on the screen.

      • Select Grid to create a table on the screen.
        PhixFlow recognises that you are displaying a table and asks if you want to create an associated input form. Follow the prompts to complete this.

   2.  Complete you screen configuration. You can make changes to a screen layout; see Adding Screen Content.

   More Information

   See Creating Dashboards and Reports for details on configuring different types of view such as graphs and charts.