Overview

You can make changes to the palettes, by adding components or removing them. You can also change the appearance of components in a palette, for example to use corporate colours.

You may prefer to leave the palettes supplied by PhixFlow unchanged and instead create your own palette.

Changing Styles

To change a palette component without affecting any existing uses of it, create a style that overrides the existing style.

1.  In the palette, right-click on a component and select  

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   If you need to find a child component, such as a header on a complete screen, right-click on the parent and select 

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   .PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the palette. Name the palette and save itThis lists all the child components. Double-click the specific component to open its properties.
2. In the Screens sectioncomponent properties, click on the 

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3. Drag components into the Component list.
4. Optionally set up Default Components.
5. Optionally define Palette Groups.
6. Save your palette.

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2. Edit the style properties to have the required settings; see Style properties.

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To change an aspect of the style of all components in a palette, for example to add a company logo or change the colour scheme to that of your company:

1.  In the palette, right-click on

1. a component and select  

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Default Components

For any screen that you design, there are common elements, such as forms, true/false fields, or fields for specific types of data, such as long strings or floating point numbers. After you have added these to the Components section of the palette properties, use the Default Component section to select which of the components you want to use for the base components. PhixFlow displays these in a "Base Component" palette. 

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2. In the Shared Styles section, click

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3. Edit the shared style properties to have the required settings; see Style properties.

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The following video shows how to do this.

Adding Components

If you have a component that you want to add to a palette, you must first save a copy it as a template component; see Creating Layout TemplatesMaking Template Components.

To add a template component to a palette:

1. Open the repository tab and palette tab.
2. Navigate to the palette and right-click select edit.
3. Drag one of the tabs Palette tab into the workspace to show the tabs side-by-side.
4. From the repository branch → Template, drag a template from the repository into a palette or open one of the groups and add it there.

Removing Components

To remove items components from a palette, right-click on the item in the palette and click 

You can group components into sub-sections of a palette; see Palette Groups, below.

Creating a New Palette

1. In the repository navigate to your Application → Palette section and select 

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Basic Settings

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For palettes supplied by PhixFlow, this URL links to the help page about the palette.

If you create your own palette, add a link to additional information to help people to use your palette.

1. PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the palette. Name the palette and save it.
2. Click the 

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Components

The grid contains a list of components that this palette contains. To add a component to the list:

Default Components

You can select a  template to use by default for common form fields.

Add a template:

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of the groups this palette contains.

Use palette groups to organise your templates, making it easier to find what you need. For example, Theme 2 has 3 palettes. The Theme 2 - App Builder palette has different components grouped together.

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We recommend you have a guiding principle for creating groups. For example, Theme 2 is organised with the most complete components, such as entire forms, first. Individual data fields are last. The groups in between have container components that you add to a screen first, then the tiles or tile elements that need to be dropped into a container.

To add a group to the list:

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1. PhixFlow opens the Palette Group properties.
2. Set the name and order. Add the components you require.
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4. Drag the templates into the palette properties →  Component section.
5. Optionally, define Palette Groups and drag templates into the groups.

This creates a palette to which you can add components. This is only available to your application.

Sharing a Palette

If you want to share your palette with other applications, move the palette and template components from your application into a package that the other applications use. You can then set some components to be defaults.

1. In the repository expand Packages and select 

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2. Create your package and complete the details.

3. Optionally, to make this a template package, tick Template; see Understanding Template Packages. Then specify the components you want to use as default components in the Template Details section.

Setting Default Components

When you create a new application you select a template package. PhixFlow uses the information in the template package to configure the default components. When creating a screen, if you drag in a table or attribute, PhixFlow uses the default component for forms, true/false fields, or fields for specific types of data, such as long strings or floating point numbers.

You can see which default components have been set in Application Properties → 

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Pallet Group Properties

This section has a toolbar with  standard buttons. 

default palette or components for your application:

1. In the repository, expand Applications.
2. Double-click on the application name. 
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Drag in the templates you want to appear in this group.

Tooltip Enter a tooltip. This will be displayed when a user hovers their mouse pointer over the palette group.

Description Enter a description for this palette group.

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2. Scroll down to Default Components.
3. Select the palette or components you want to use.
4. Save your changes

Next time you drag a table or attribute onto a screen canvas, PhixFlow uses the default components you have set.