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You will create a new grid view to show the data in the stream in a table format. This is illustrated by the following video.

First create a

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To do this you must create a Stream View:
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To recap, the steps in the video were:

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  • Create dashboard:
    • In the repository browser, find Image Modified - Dashboards
    • Right click and select Image Modified - Add Dashboard
    • Set the dashboard name to Overall Debt Levels
    • Click Apply to save your changes
    • A new, empty dashboard will appear
  • Now create a new view on the dashboard:
    • Use the Phixflow task bar (grey bar at the bottom of the screen) to navigate back to the model Dashboards and Forms 01-08: Views, filters and dashboards
    • Double click on the stream Overall debt levels
    • Again using the PhixFlow task bar, select the dashboard you just created (Overall Debt Levels) to bring this back to the front
  • The next step is illustrated by the video:

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To recap, the steps in the video were:

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    • Drag the icon in the top left hand corner of the stream config form onto the dashboard
    • Choose a Grid view
    • This creates a stream view - the stream view shows on the dashboard, and the configuration form for the view opens in the repository browser
    • From the stream view configuration form, open the list of stream attributes
    • Drag the attributes you want (in this case, all of them) from the list onto the header of the stream view in the dashboard

You can also see your new view in the list of views for the stream:

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You can freeze a number of columns.

TODO: need new example to show this; view in this exercise too smallFirst prepare some data:

  • Open the model Dashboards and Forms 11-13. Actions to update, insert, delete
  • Run analysis on the stream Wisteria Books Inventory - this will load data into the stream
  • Create a new view:
    • Create a new dashboard: Wisteria Books Inventory
    • Drag the stream Wisteria Books Inventory onto the dashboard
    • Select Grid view
    • Add all attributes
  • Widen the columns so that you can see all (or most) of the text in each column - eventually you will see a horizontal scroll bar appear at the bottom of the view

Freeze a column:

  • Freeze the second column (this should be Subject): right click on the column heading and select Freeze column
  • Slide the horizontal scroll bar - you will see the first 2 columns are frozen

Set width

You can fix the width of a column. By default, columns are flex. To see this, maximise the dashboard - the columns widen to fit the overall size of the window. To fix a column with:

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