You have created a screen that displays the data. But you also want your users to be able to edit data records. So you will now add a form area to the dashboard.
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This adds a split area and buttons to the form, which now looks like this: |
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Your form should now look like this: The form is displaying the first data record. If you select different data records in the table, the form display does not change. But you want the form to display the currently selected record. To make this happen you need to connect the form to the data. |
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To display the company name in the form title:
To link the table content with the form content:
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You can now switch to a user-view of your application. In the bottom right of the PhixFlow window is an icon that shows you are currently in
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Next Steps
You have now completed the PhixFlow Quick Start course. You have worked through the general process for using PhixFlow to create a simple application, and practiced the simple drag-and-drop techniques common in PhixFlow.
PhixFlow has many more features that you can use to build applications. You can learn more in the Building Applications training course.
If you are interested in loading and changing data using analysis models, try some of the Introduction to Modelling training course.