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Opens a User Details Form allowing the user to change their own account settings (including their password).
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Returns PhixFlow to the startup screen so that the user must log back in to resume work.
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The status bar is at the bottom of the PhixFlow window. On the left the number of currently running actions is shown. There is also the button to show/hide the windows bar. If there are any notifications on screen, they can all be dismissed in one go by clicking 'Dismiss notifications'. This will dismiss the green notification pop ups but not red error/failure messages.
On the right are icons which can be used to access different features:
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The Windows bar appears in the bottom of the screen if 'Show Windows Bar' is selected from the footer bar. The Windows bar contains links to all open windows (both open and minimised). Click on a link to restore the window (if needed) and bring the window to the front of the screen. Each window link also has a context menu which allows you to close it directly.
Administration Menu
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Import stream data
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When you open the settings for a model or one of its modelling objects, the settings tab has a toolbar at the top.
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Save the current settings and close the tab.
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Save the current settings and keep the tab open.
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Toggle between the current settings tab and one that was previously open.
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Find in Explorer. This icon will bring the repository browser tab to the front and will close all nodes except those leading to this object. You may need to scroll the explorer to see the selected object.
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Context sensitive help.
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If there is insufficient space on the header bar then some buttons are moved into this drop-down menu. The following options are always on the drop-down menu:
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- permanent as there is no "undo" option
- everywhere, so if the object is used by other models, it is also deleted there.
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Note that the Audit trail is a useful way of reversing changes made by mistake as each audit entry shows both the new and old values. In the case of text fields, simply copy the old value and paste it into the form field.
Settings Section Toolbars
Each settings tab can contain a number of sections. Each section has a header represented by a green bar with a small arrow before the section label which can be clicked to collapse and open the section.
Some sections contain fields whereas other sections can contain grids. Sections which contain grids may have a number of icons on them to allow you to add and delete records, see a more detailed grid with more columns or refresh the current grid.
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Open up a grid showing more details about each item.
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Delete the selected item or items.
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Refresh the list (e.g. if the list has been updated on another computer by another user).
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Create and insert a new item into the list.
Model Toolbar
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The operations on configuration object grids are all very similar (e.g. add, delete, refresh etc.) however data grids will have additional operations which are all described on the help page for that object.
The following general features of grids are worth noting:
The items on grids are paged which means that PhixFlow fetches a batch of data at a time to populate the grid. The grid footer bar indicates which items are being shown, how many items there are in total and the page size. The user can page forwards and backwards using and
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Columns can be ordered by clicking the column header. Each click reverses the order direction. Please note that only the items currently paged in the display are ordered.
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View Popup Menu
When you drag attributes onto a layout, such as a screen or form, PhixFlow prompts how to display the data.
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| Grid | Display the data laid out in a table. |
| Line Chart | Plot a line or lines to represent quantities against a horizontal axis of categories. |
| Barcharts | Plot a quantity as a set of bars aligned vertically against a set of categories along the horizontal axis. |
| Plot a quantity as a set of bars aligned horizontally against a set of categories along the vertical axis. | |
| Pie Chart | Plot a quantity as a pie chart, grouped by a category. |
| Form | Layout the attributes as a form. |
