Creating a New Application
To create a new application:
either in the repository, right-click Applications and click
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Click the last card, which is the New Application card:
When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates
a menu item for it. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch
→ application_name
_Menu
. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the menu bar at the top
of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.
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For information about sharing components or data between applications, see Package.
Application Properties
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Name | The name of the application. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Default Date Format | Select the default format for Date attributes and components. | Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to:
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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.
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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:
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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:
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Style Settings
In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:
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
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.
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Menus
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:
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Access Permissions
For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.
Packages
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons
and. The grid contains a list of
user groups that have permission to access topackages that contain this application. To add
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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:
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Application Menu and Context Menus
The Application Menu
In both . The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.
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- 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 .
Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, below.
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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 to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right.
Click Then click the 3-dot icon icon.
Repository Application Context Menu
Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open display the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.
Context Menu Options
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Application application card and | Load Application | Load the selected application so that it is running in
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Application application card | Load Application in a New Window | Opens Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded. | ||||||||
Repository application namerepository 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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