Overview
PhixFlow is a low-code application development tool. PhixFlow's visual design process means you can use drag-and-drop techniques to easily create everything you need to make a fully-functional application.
- Creating an Application: Easily set up new application, setup your application using its properties; see Application Properties.
- Define Your Data: Set up Entity Relationship Diagrams to define the data that backs your application.
- Build the Screens: Designing Screens that allow users to interact with your data. Build screens using drag and drop templates or define your own screens using CSS.
- Setup Actionflows: Actionflows control the interactions users can perform with your application and its data.
- Analyse Data: Use analysis models to bulk process large data sets and create integrations with your data sources.
Where you may need to add code, PhixFlow provides fields for Expressions and PhixScripts.
Getting Started
When you first log in, PhixFlow opens the Welcome window, listing all the applications available to you:
Opening Applications
- Click anywhere in a card to open the application.
- PhixFlow asks you to confirm. Click Yes to continue to the application's Home window. From here you can select an aspect of your application on which to work.
For information about the Create New button see: Creating an Application
Return to the Welcome window
- Click the
Application menu
PhixFlow's Two Modes
Design Mode: use this mode to create and configure applications. This includes designing screens, creating workflows and actionflows, defining data structure and relationships. You can also set up complex bulk data processing using analysis models.
We recommend that you use design mode on a desktop computer.
Application Mode: use this mode to run your PhixFlow applications. Applications can be designed to be used on:
- desktop or laptop computers
- mobile device, such as a tablet or smartphone.
Access Control
Administrators can set up PhixFlow so that application users never see Design Mode, and can access only the applications and data that they have been graded access to.