Overview

You can add your own components to the palettes provided by Phixflow. Alternatively, you can keep your custom components on your own palettes; see Changing or Creating a Palette.

If you have a specific component that you want to reuse on multiple screens

:

1. Convert it to a template component, described below.
2. Add it to a new or existing palette.

Making a

Template

1. On a screen canvas, add components from a palette and change their properties to create

1. the layout and design you want.
2. Set all the style options you require.

1. We recommend that you use shared styles when designing a layout that you want to add to a palette.
2. Right-click the

1. outermost component for the layout and select 

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2. In the repository, right-click the component name.
3. From the

1. popup menu, select Copy as a Template.
2. PhixFlow opens a new property

1. pane. This is a copy of the original component, with the Advanced → Template property ticked. It is saved in the

1. Template section of the repository. 
2. Edit the name to reflect that this component is now a

1. template.

Adding a Template Component to a Palette

1. In the repository

1. , find a palette and open its properties.
2. Drag the palette properties tab into the workspace

1. .
   PhixFlow creates a second panel so that the palette properties are displayed next to the repository.
2. Expand the repository → Templates section.
3. Drag template components into:
   • Either the palette properties → Components section
   • Or the palette properties → Palette Groups → open group properties → Components section.

The template now appears in the palette as a reusable component that you can drag onto the screen canvas.

Managing Palettes and Template Components

To successfully move a palette to a different PhixFlow instance, you must include

all its templates and styles in the export. Consider adding your styles,

templates and associated palette to a package, to ensure they are all included

; see Package for how to add items to a package.

To

export your application, click the Administration menu

→ 

 and Import Configuration.