This page is for application designers who want to design re-usable components and add them to palettes.

Overview

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, you can make a Template, then add :

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 a desired layoutthe layout and design you want.
2. Set all the style options you require. We recommend that you use shared styles when designing a layout that you want to add to a palette.
3. Right-click the outermost component for the layout and select 

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4. In the repository, right-click the component name.
5. From the context popup menu, select Copy as a Template.
6. PhixFlow opens a new property panelpane. This is a copy of the original component, with the Advanced → Template property ticked. It is saved in the Template section of the repository. 
7. Edit the name to reflect that this component is now a template.To add

Adding a

Template Component to a

Palette

1. In the repository open the desired palette. Drag the , find a palette and open its properties.
2. Drag the palette properties tab into the workspace to show the tab for the palette and template side-by-side.
   PhixFlow creates a second panel so that the palette properties are displayed next to the repository.
3. Expand the repository → Templates section.
4. Drag the template components into the desired group of the palette:
   • 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 add your own components to the palettes provided by Phixflow. Alternatively, you can keep your custom components on your own palettes; see How to Create a Palette.

Managing Templates 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 in an export; see Package for how to add items to a package.

To perform the export your application, click the Administration menu options Export Full Configuration or Open Export Pane to include the templates and styles in your package→