Creating a New Application

To create a new application:

• either in the repository, right-click Applications and click 

  Insert excerpt
  _add _add nopanel true

• or, open the 

  Insert excerpt
  _app_menu _app_menu nopanel true

  ; see 7273120153The Application Menu, below below.
  Click the last card, which is the New Application card:

  

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 → application_name_Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top menu bar at the top of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.

For information about sharing components or data between applications, see Package.

Application Properties

Insert excerpt
_standard_settings _standard_settings nopanel true

Basic Settings

Style Settings

In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:

• Grid Header Style

• Grid Header Button Style

• Grid Header Icon Style

• Grid Header Drop-down Button Style

• Grid header Drop-down Pane Style

• Grid Paging Style

• Grid Row Style

• Grid Column Header Style

• Row Selection 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 Stream View properties.

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

• Insert excerpt
  _style_list _style_list nopanel true

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

• Insert excerpt
  _add _add nopanel true

  : create a new style.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. 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-click a menu to display the context menu and select:

• Insert excerpt
  _menu_desktop _menu_desktop nopanel true

• Insert excerpt
  _menu_mobile _menu_mobile nopanel true

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

You can also use the context menu to:

• Insert excerpt
  _add _add nopanel true

  : add  add another menu to the list

• Insert excerpt
  _delete _delete nopanel true

  : delete  delete the menu from this application.

Access Permissions

Tip
You must have saved the action before you can change its permissions.

FieldDescriptionAll Users Can View Application Insert excerpt_check_box_ticked_check_box_tickednopaneltrue all users can view this application. Insert excerpt_check_box_untick_check_box_unticknopaneltrue to specify the user groups that can access this application. When unticked, you must add at least one user group before you can save the properties.

User Groups

This section is only available if All Users Can View Application is unticked. This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and  Insert excerpt_user_group_user_groupnopaneltrue.

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

Click Insert excerpt_user_group_user_groupnopaneltrue to list all the user groups in the repository.

Drag user groups into this list. 

To remove a user group from the list, use the Insert excerpt_delete_deletenopaneltrue in the toolbar

For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.

Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages that contain this application. To add an application to the list:

1. Click

   Insert excerpt
   _add _add nopanel true

    to list all the packages in the repository.
2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button  

Insert excerpt
_delete _delete nopanel true

 in the toolbar.

Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application

Menu

Menu 

Anchor
app_menu app_menu

When you run PhixFlow in 

Insert excerpt
_design_mode _design_mode nopanel true

 without loading an application, you will see the PhixFlow logo and text in the top left of the window. You can click this area to open the  

Insert excerpt
_app_menu _app_menu nopanel true

. The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.

When you run PhixFlow in either 

Insert excerpt
_app_mode _app_mode nopanel true

 or 

Insert excerpt
_design_mode _design_mode nopanel true

, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the 

Insert excerpt
_app_menu _app_menu nopanel true

 opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow.  You can   

To open the 

Insert excerpt
_app_menu _app_menu nopanel true

at any time.:

• Either either click on the PhixFlow logo and name  Image Removed, logo/name in the top left of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo and name  Image Added.
• Oror, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the PhixFlow logo Image Removed in in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen.

If your application has an image specified in the

• . By default this is the PhixFlow logo Image Added.

Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, this will replace the  PhixFlow  Insert excerpt_app_menu_app_menunopaneltrue imagebelow.

The 

Insert excerpt
_app_menu _app_menu nopanel true

 lists the available applications as cards, for example:
Image RemovedNew image required??

Image Added

Tip
The  Insert excerpt _app_menu _app_menu nopanel true  displays the applications: that have been configured to appear on menu and that you have permission to use. The repository → Applications branch displays the applications that you have permission to use.

Application Card Context Menu

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

• either right-click anywhere in the card
• or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right.
  Click Then click the 3-dot icon   icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

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

Image RemovedImage Added

Context Menu Options