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This page is for application designers who want to design re-usable layout components and add them to palettes.

Overview

The easiest way to design a screen for an application is to:

  • create a dashboard; see Dashboard
  • drag in pre-designed layout components from the palette. For information about the palettes that can be installed with PhixFlow, see pages in the Using Palettes and Themes topic.

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Overview

You can add your own components to the palettes provided by Phixflow. Alternatively, you can keep your custom components on your own palettes; see Changing or Creating a Palette.

If you have a specific

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component that you want to reuse on multiple screens

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  1. Convert it to a template

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  1. component,

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  1. described below.
  2. Add it to a new or existing palette.

For Layouts and Layout Templates the repository does not have a context menu option to add a new one. 

Making a

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Template

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  1. On a screen canvas, add components from a palette and change their properties to create the layout and design you want.
  2. Set all the style options you require

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  1. . We recommend that you use shared styles when designing a layout that you want to add to a palette.
  2. Right-click the outermost component for the layout

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  1. and select 
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  2. In the repository, right-click the

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  1. component name.
  2. From the

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  1. popup menu, select Copy as a Template.
  2. PhixFlow opens a new property

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  1. pane. This is a copy of the original component, with the Advanced → Template property ticked. It is saved in the

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  1. Template section of the repository. 
  2. Edit the name to reflect that this component is now a template.

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Adding a Template Component to a Palette

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  1. In the repository

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Reusing Components in Dashboards

To use a layout template, simply drag it into the dashboard:

  • either from the repository Layout Template 
  • or from the palette.

When you drag in the component, PhixFlow prompts you to add a name. PhixFlow saves the copy in your application as a layout component, using the new name. This means that changing a template

  • does not change the components that have already been copied from it. 
  • new copies will have the change.
Tip

To be able to change the appearance of existing copies of a layout template:

configure the formatting in a style,

Add the style to the layout templates Shared Styles; see Style and Shared Styles and Style Order.

Managing Layout Templates 

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  1. , find a palette and open its properties.
  2. Drag the palette properties tab into the workspace.
    PhixFlow creates a second panel so that the palette properties are displayed next to the repository.
  3. Expand the repository → Templates section.
  4. Drag template components into:
    • Either the palette properties → Components section
    • Or the palette properties → Palette Groups → open group properties → Components section.

The template now appears in the palette as a reusable component that you can drag onto the screen canvas.

Managing Palettes and Template Components

To successfully move a palette to a different PhixFlow instance, you must include

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all its templates and styles in the export. Consider adding your

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styles, templates and associated palette to a package, to ensure they are all included

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; see Package for how to add items to a package.

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To export your application, click the Administration menu → 

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; see Export Configuration and Import Configuration.