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This page is for administrators. It explains how to create a PhixFlow home screen.  

Overview

By default, PhixFlow does not display a home screen. This means that, when a user first opens PhixFlow, the screen behind the login window is blankconfigure a login message, which is displayed to all PhixFlow users during login.

PhixFlow has a login message area above the login prompt. You can configure Phixflow to display a home screen behind the login window. You can:

  • either display the standard home screen, which includes the PhixFlow logo, name and version
  • or display the standard home screen with custom content, incuding formatted text and images. Images must be uploaded to PhixFlow.

If the space required by the text plus image exceeds the available space on the home screen, PhixFlow automatically adds scrollbars.

When you configure a home screen, it is displayed to all PhixFlow users when they are logging in.

How to Configure a Home Screen

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PhixFlow to display a message to users, for example to notify them of system upgrades.

The login message area is a fixed width and height. If your message exceeds the available space, PhixFlow automatically adds vertical scrollbars to the message area.

To configure a login message:

  1. Go to System Configuration → General Settings → Home Screen Message HTML.
  2. Just add a space???
  3. Click Insert excerpt_finish_finishnopaneltrue.

With custom content

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borderColor#01CFF1
borderWidth4
titleBGColor#01CFF1
titleExample

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Copy the following HTML into System Configuration → General Settings → Home Screen Message HTML.

Code Block
<p><font size="14pt" color="green" style="bold">Welcome to PhixFlow, solving your business data and processes.</font></p>
<p><img height="150" src="../images/home-screen-test.png" alt="PhixFlow Process"/>

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Log out of PhixFlow.

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  1. Enter the message text.
  2. Use the text formatting buttons to format the text.
  3. Save your changes.

The login message is displayed to the next user who logs into PhixFlow.