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This page is for PhixFlow application developers designers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.

Overview

In PhixFlow you can combine layout components, such as tables, charts, menus and buttons, to create screens (dashboards). By connecting the layout components to the data in streams, you can create applications. Application users can load an application to interact with the stream data, for example to view and update it.

You can use the application properties tab to configure the application to set:

different data defaults compared to the PhixFlow system defaults

default style settings to use for all the layout components in the application

the options to appear in the menu bar for

When you create an application in PhixFlow, you select a template. This configures default styles and formats for your application. For how to create a new application, see Creating an Application.

When you are working on your application in

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, you can:

define data relationships: see Entity Relationship Diagrams
design screens that form the graphical user interface (GUI) of an application: see Designing Screens
connect parts of the screen to actions or Actionflows that create functionality: Understanding Actionflows

This page lists the application properties. To open the application properties tab:

Go to the
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If the tab is not present, in the PhixFlow toolbar, click the
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In the Applications section, double-click your application's name.
PhixFlow opens the properties tab for the application on the right.

Use the options to set:

icons for the application
defaults for:
- number formats
- styles for grids
- components to use for displaying data.
menus so that user's can navigate through the application
access privileges to specify which users can use the application.
any packages containing shared resources that your application can use; see Package.

Loading an Application

Application users can load an application into

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to interact with data, for example to view and update it.

You can work on the files in an application's project without loading it. However, if you load an application, the repository is automatically filtered to show just the files available to the application.

There are several ways to load an application. You can:

click the PhixFlow logo to open

From the application menu, click the application card to load it.
By default, PhixFlow opens with the application menu displayed. To redisplay the menu, in the top left of the PhixFlow window click:
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Creating a New Application

To create a new application:

either in the repository, right-click Applications and click

Application

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Basic Settings

Field

Description

Name

Enter the name of the application.

Model Validation Status

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Version

Enter a version number for your application. Use this to track the stages of development or maintenance for your application.

or, at the end of

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Select whether or not this application appears in the

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, click the New Application card; see Application, below.

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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. The menu item has the application name with the _Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top menu bar; see Menu.

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Application Properties

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Basic Settings

FieldDescriptionNameThe name of the application.VersionThe version number of the application

. For example, you may have a test application that should not be visible to other PhixFlow users. Use the repository to open an application that is not present in the Welcome window's application list.

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to include this application.

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to exclude this application. This is useful for test applications that you do not want anyone else to see.

Default Date Format

Select the default format for Date attributes and components.

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Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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: shows the number formats available for this application in the repository.

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: create a new format.

Default Component Palette

Select the palette that you want to use when you drag

stream attributes layout or area. PhixFlow stream

attributes into a layout for a different (destination) application that is running.

If you do not set a default palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette.

Tip
Basic palettes are installed with PhixFlow. Additional palettes are available, see Understanding Template Packages and Installing Template Packages.

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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:

height: up to 100 pixels
width: 100 to 150 pixels.

See Adding Images for how to upload an image to PhixFlow.

PhixFlow uploads application icons and logos to the images folder in its database. You can see a list of uploaded images in the repository > Images section.

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:

height: up to 40 pixels
width: up to 300 pixels.

Style Settings

When you drag a table or view onto a screen canvas, and select a grid component to display the table data, PhixFlow adds a grid. In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set the following:

Grid Header Button Icon Drop-down header Drop-down Pane Paging

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.

stylestyle: shows the styles available for this application in the repository.:

to create a new style; see 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 View properties.

Default Components

In this section, select an appropriate component for PhixFlow to add when you drag attributes onto a form or card container. For information about data types, see Understanding Data Types.

String
Bigstring
Long
Float
Decimal
True/False
Date
DateTime

Also set the styling for a:

Form
Card
Drop Down
Dynamic Text

And select a default:

Table Action - This is the button that PhixFlow adds when you drag a table-action onto a screen canvas.
Menu Button

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have

stream

actionflows or record-actions that can be applied for this application.

PhixFlow automatically creates a default menu when you create the application project. PhixFlow will display in the default menu in the menu bar:

once you have added options to the menu
and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).

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 menu to display the context menu and select

line in the list to show the popup menu options:

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PhixFlow displays or desktop application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the Application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:

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Access Permissions

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The grid contains a list of user groups that have permission to access to this application. To add a user group to the list:

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Drag user groups into this list.

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Advanced

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Packages

This section has a toolbar

with standard that contain this application. To add an application to the list

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A package is a bundle of PhixFlow items that are shared between multiple applications. When you export/import an application to another PhixFlow instance, it is important to export/import all packages with the application; see Application Administration.

One package will include your applications theme settings. To add another package to the application:

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Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

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Popup Menu Options

To access popup menus for an application:

Either, in the repository, right-click on an application's name to show the popup menu.
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The applications are shown in cards, for example:

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Application Card Context Menu

Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:

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Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.

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Context Menu Options

Available in context menu

or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right.
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Load the selected application so that it is running in

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Load application in a New Tab

Open a new browser tab with the selected application loaded.

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Load Application in a New Window

Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded.

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In the repository

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application properties tab to make changes.

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Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.

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