This page is for data modellers and application designers who want to select specific attributes to appear in a screen, and to format how the data will be displayed.

Overview

The menu item properties panel is accessed from the view properties → Actions tab → Menu Item grid. Use the menu item properties to create menus and sub-menus that appear in the header of a view component. Associate the menu item with a table-action or actionflow that will run when the application user clicks on the menu item.

The view component on the screen is designed with a header bar. You can configure buttons, menus and sub-menus that are displayed in the view's header bar. Each button or menu item also has an associated table-action that runs when the application user clicks the item. You can only add table-actions from view's parent table.

There are three ways to add lists and buttons:

Click on the Actionflow icon in the section's toolbar.
- PhixFlow opens a list of the table-actions available on the parent table.
- Drag a table-action from this popup form onto the grid.
- If you drop onto an existing menu item, PhixFlow prompts you to:
  - either create a new button
  - or add the action to the menu item.
- If you drop onto an existing menu item, PhixFlow adds the dragged action to the list
Open the Table properties. Drag actions into Properties tab→ Actions section list.
Click the Add New icon in the toolbar to create a button, menu or sub-menu.

Property Pane Toolbar

For information about the toolbar options, see the Common Properties page, Toolbars and Controls section.

Properties Tab

Parent Details

If this item is within or belongs to another, it's parent name is shown here. See the Common Properties page, Parent Details section for more details.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Click Action	Select the type of action that PhixFlow will run when the user clicks on the menu or sub-menu item. No Action Stream Action (table-action) Actionflow
Actionflow	Available when Click Action is Actionflow. Save a new menu item before setting this property. To add an actionflow: Click Actionflow to display a list of available actionflows in the repository. Drag the actionflow from the list into this field. To create a new actionflow, click Add New; see Creating Actionflows.
Action	Available when Click Action is Stream Action. To add a table-action: Find a table-action: To reuse a table-action from a different table, click List Tables to display a list of tables. Expand a table to see its associated table-actions. To display a list of table-actions available to the parent table of this view, click Table-action. Drag the table-action from the list into this field.
Name	Available for sub-menus. Enter a name of the action button. PhixFlow stores the menu item with this name. Use this name if you need to refer to this menu item elsewhere in PhixFlow. This is not the text that appears to the application user.
Display Name	Enter the menu text that an application user sees.
Order	Specify a number that is the order that the menu item appears: either on the header bar, with 1 being the leftmost or in a sub-menu, the order in the list, with 1 being the first.
Menu Items	Available for sub-menus. The grid lists the menu items nested in this menu item. To add more menu items, click Add New.

Audit Tab

Audit Summary

See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

Sections on this page

Learn More

For links to all pages in this topic, see Designing Screens.

Terminology changes in progress

As part of the redesign of PhixFlow, we are changing the following terms:

dashboard → screen
stream → table
stream attributes → attributes
stream item → record
stream set → recordset
stream view → view
stream item action → record-action
stream action → table-action
driver class → database driver

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