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Overview

When you are running PhixFlow in

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, for any task, PhixFlow provides list of the relevant items that you can use.

If you want to find items at other times, you will find them listed in the repository. To show or hide the repository

either click the repository icon on the right edge
or click the repository icon in the header bar.

Items are grouped into the following main

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, the Full Repository and Unallocated items. The repository is shown by default as a tab in the right panel.

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To show/hide the context help panel only, click the
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To close the repository, click X in the tab.
To reopen the repository, in the PhixFlow toolbar at in top right, click
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Items in the Repository

Items are grouped into branches which you can

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Applications: This branch lists PhixFlow applications. Expand an application to see the items contained in it.
Packages: Items in a package can be shared by different applications.
Full Repository: This branch lists all items

from

, grouped by type, from any application or package.
Unallocated: This branch lists the items that are not included in any application or package.

In PhixFlow versions pre-11, the following options are also available in the Repository, as well as in the

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menu. See Administration Menu.

System Configuration: Opens a properties

tab where

pane in which administrators can set defaults for the whole PhixFlow

system

system.
System Logging: Opens a properties

tab

pane where administrators can set defaults for logging system data.

When you are looking for items in the repository, it is important to check whether you are looking in an Application branch

,

or in the Full Repository. In both branches, items are

listed in collection headers, in

grouped by type under a collection header, in alphanumeric order. By default, items in packages are not

listed under collection headers

grouped by type. To

use collection headers

group items in a package, right-click on the package name and select Show the

collection headers

Collection Headers.

When any branches of the repository are open, you can quickly collapse them all. In the repository toolbar, click

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When you are editing the properties for some items, you can open a repository tab containing a filtered list of items. You can then drag selected items from the repository into the properties. For example, this makes it easy to add a task plan to an action.

Tooltips

If you hover your mouse pointer over an item in the repository, PhixFlow displays a tooltip for it, if one is available. The tooltip comes from the item's Description property. We recommend you add a description for any item you create; see Common Properties.

Selecting Items and Opening Properties

To select a group of items, use Shift+click. To select several items individually, use Ctrl+click.

Double-click on an item in the repository to open its properties

tab. Here

pane where you can

set the properties for modelling objects and application components.

configure options for it.

In addition to having properties, you can open

and edit

some items in the workspace on the left. These are:

Analysis models represent

Entity relationship diagrams, where you create tables and relationships; see Entity Relationship Diagrams.
Workflows, where you define tasks and processes for applications and their users; see Creating Workflows.
Screens, which are made up of different components, including data, form fields, cards, and menus; see Designing Screens.
Actionflows, where you wire up functionality so that application users can interact with screens and data; see Understanding Actionflows.
Analysis models, where you configure the flow and transformation of data; see Analysis Models for Batch Processing Data.

Views display the data in streams in grids and charts; see Understanding Data Views.

Screens combine several views. Application screens are

Screens, which made up of different components, including data, form fields, cards, and menus; see Designing Screens.

There are many windows that pop up in the workspace. For example when you are creating views of data to display on a screen, PhixFlow opens the Available Attributes Window; see Displaying Data (Views).

To display

and update

these items in the workspace on the left, select Display:

From

Either from the repository

, open the

right-click an item's

properties.From

name to show the popup menu and select Display:
Or from the toolbar on the properties

tab

pane, click

the icon for the item, which is its

the Display option.

PhixFlow opens the item in the workspace on the left.

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The repository:
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You may need to click
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Finding Repository Items

In the repository, most items are

sorted

grouped by type under a collection header. For example all the analysis models are stored together. To find an item of a specific type, expand the collection header. You can then either scroll down the list or, to help you find items in long lists, use the search box. When you type into the search box, PhixFlow filters the list to show only the names that contain the string you have typed so far.

To clear the search, click the x on the right of the search box.

Some types of item "belong" to another item. For example you can expand any

stream

table to see that it can potentially have actions,

stream item

record-actions, attributes, views, filters, sort orders and inputs. You can also search within these sub-collections.

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Applications and Packages

Each item can only be part of one application or package. To move an item to another application or package, drag it onto the new application or package in the repository. When objects are moved into a package they are no longer included in the original application

. See Package for more details

; see Package.

To remove an item from an application or package, right-click on it in the repository and select Remove from Container. This removes the item from the application or package, but it remains

in the repository.

To add stream attributes to application components, such as screens or forms, simply drag in the attribute. As you are dragging, PhixFlow changes the cursor to show where you can drop the attribute:

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Rollback Streams

You can rollback the data changes

in

one or more streams using the repository context menu. Select the streams, then right-click to display the context menu and select Rollback Selected Objects.

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Context Menu

In

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Creates a new item of the selected type.

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To see the full list of applications again, clear the application's name from the Applications search field.

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Opens a new window listing all the items with the selected. The window includes information about the key properties for each item.

Display
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Opens a model, screen, ERD, workflow or actionflow diagram in the workspace.
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pop-up

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Opens a new window listing all the models that contain the item.

Enable

The icon depends on the item. Enables the item without having to open its properties.

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The icon depends on the item and is

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overlaid with the stop icon.

Disables

This disables the item without having to open its properties.

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For components, copies an existing component and saves it as a template.

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Opens the properties tab for the item, where you can change its settings.

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Warning

Deletes the item from the repository and from all the items that contain it.

This option:

cannot be undone
deletes the item from the repository and from any application, package, model or component that uses it.

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Removes an item from the current container, but keeps it in

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the repository.

Set Audit Required

Sets whether or not PhixFlow records actions on this item in the audit log.

Set Audit Not Required

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Opens a list of the

stream sets

recordsets.

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Opens the default view of a

stream

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Runs analysis on a

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table.

Load Application

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Filter by Name

Shows only the selected application in the repository.

To see the full list of applications again, clear the application's name from the Applications search field.

For details of some other menus and toolbars, see Menu Options and Toolbar Buttons.

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