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Overview

A palette provides quick access to set of configured layout templates, which you can dragging onto forms to create layout components.

PhixFlow comes with two default palettes:

  • Basic Components: contains all basic layout components, such as String Field and CheckBox without any additional labels and styling.
  • Labeled Fields: contains a set of predefined form fields that have configurable labels. This is the palette to use when designing application forms. 

You can also configure PhixFlow to use automatically use your prefered palette, see application properties → Basic Settings → Default Component Palette.

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Editing Palettes

You can create new palettes and edit existing ones.

Add items to a palette by dragging a layout template onto it.

Remove items from a palette by right-clicking on the item in the palette and selecting Permanently Delete. This does not remove the layout template from the repository, but just removes the layout from this palette.

Palette Properties

For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties.  For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Property Tabs.

For each palette, the following settings are configured.

Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameName of the palette.

Layouts

A list of of the layout components that this palette contains. Press Show the list of Templates to bring up the list of layout templates.

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and  List Layouts.The grid contains a list of layout components that this palette contains. To add a layout to the list:

  1. Click  List Layouts to list all the layout components in the repository.
  2. Drag layout components into this list to add them to the palette. 

To remove a layout component from the palette, use the  Permanently Delete in the toolbar.

Default Components

FieldDescription
String Component              





For each type of layout, select a default component from the drop-down list.









Bigstring Component
Long Component
Float Component
True/False Component
Date Component
DateTime Component
Action Component
Form Component
Card Component

Description

FieldDescription
TooltipThe description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette.
DescriptionDescription of this palette.
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