This page is for PhixFlow application designers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.

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Select an uploaded image to provide customised branding for the application. When a user clicks this image, it will open the application menu. We recommend an image size of approximately:

height: up to 40 pixels
width: up to 300 pixels.

Overview

In PhixFlow to design an application GUI, you add components to a screen. Components include tables, charts, menus and buttons. By connecting the components to the data in tables (streams), you can create applications. Application users can load an application to interact with the table (stream) data, for example to view and update it.

You can use the application properties tab to configure the application to set:

different data defaults compared to the PhixFlow system defaults
default style settings to use for all the layout components in the application
the options to appear in the menu bar for the application
access privileges to specify which users can use the application.

For information about sharing components or data between applications, see Package.

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Loading an Application

There are several ways to load an application. You can:

click the 9dot?? or PhixFlow logo to open the Application menu; see The Application Menu, below renamed to Welcome
in the repository, right-click on the application name and select Load Application
in a browser, enter the application URL; see Starting PhixFlow on the Client. When PhixFlow is started in this way, you can still navigate to other applications that you have permission to access.

Shortcut to app settings.

Sections on this page

Creating a New Application

To create a new application:

either in the repository, right-click Applications and click Add New
or, open the Application menu; see The Application Menu, below.
Click the last card, which is the New Application card:

When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates a menu item for it. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch → application_name_Menu. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the menu bar at the top of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.

Application Properties

For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. We recommend you always add a Description that explains the purpose of the item you are creating.

For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Properties, Windows, Menus and Toolbars.

About

Field	Description
Name	The name of the application.
Created by	The name of the person who created the application
Description	The description of the application. Consider including the purpose of the application and who is responsible for it.
Application Icon	Select an uploaded image to use in the application menu card for this application. We recommend an image size of approximately: height: up to 100 pixels width: 100 to 150 pixels. See Image for how to upload an image to PhixFlow.

Menus

This section lists the menus and the associated actionflows or stream item actions?? that have been created for your application.

At the bottom of the list are the Delete ??add icon and Add ??add icon buttons.

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The default menu is created automatically with the applcation.

Adding a menu process??

Link to Menu page??

You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices. In the grid, right-click a menu to display the context menu and select:

Desktop Menu
Mobile Menu

PhixFlow displays the mobile or desktop icon next to the application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:

You can also use the context menu to:

Add New add another menu to the list
Delete delete the menu from this application.

Field	Description
Show Application in Menu	Select whether or not this application appears in the Application menu. For example, you may have a test application that should not be visible to other PhixFlow users. Use the repository to open an application that is not present in the Welcome window's application list.
Show Default Menu Bar	If you want menu options for the user to navigate your application, select this potion. PhixFlow displays the menu bar at the top of the application screen. Use the Navigation settings to add menu options. See PhixFlow's Interface for screenshots showing the default menu bar.

Access Permissions

For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.

Style Settings

Field	Description
Theme	The name of the theme that defines the defaults and styles for this application. The theme provides a set of palettes and sets some style defaults, such as the styles for grids that you add to screens. You can change style settings: in the template components in the palette create shared styles set styles on individual components Shared Styles and Style Order
Date	Select the default format for Date attributes and components.	Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to: List Formats: shows the formats available for this application in the repository. Add New: create a new format.
Date Time	Select the default format for DateTime attributes and components.
Number	Select the default format for numbers.

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Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages that contain this application. To add an application to the list:

Click Add New to list all the packages in the repository.
Drag packages into this list.

To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button Delete.

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The styles you select override any styles set in System Configuration. You can override these defaults for individual grids using the style settings in the Stream View properties.

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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: shows the styles available for this application in the repository.
Add New: create a new style.

Basic Settings

Field

Description

Default Component Palette

Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto a layout or area. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running.

If the container application for is not running, PhixFlow uses:

either the default palette set for the area.
or the default palette for the destination application when you are dragging stream attributes into a layout for a different (destination) application that is running.

If you do not set a default palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette.

Application Icon

Select an uploaded image to use in the application menu card for this application. We recommend an image size of approximately:

height: up to 100 pixels
width: 100 to 150 pixels.

See Image for how to upload an image to PhixFlow.

Application Logo

Select an uploaded image to provide customised branding for the application. When a user clicks this image, it will open the application menu. We recommend an image size of approximately:

height: up to 40 pixels
width: up to 300 pixels.

Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

When you run PhixFlow in Design Mode without loading an application, you will see the PhixFlow logo and text in the top left of the window. You can click this area to open the Application menu. The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.

When you run PhixFlow in either Application Mode or Design Mode, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the Application menu opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow.

To open the Application menu at any time:

either click on the logo/name in the top left of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo and name .
or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo .

Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, below.

The Application menu lists the available applications as cards, for example:

The Application menu displays the applications:

that have been configured to appear on menu
and that you have permission to use.

The repository → Applications branch displays the applications that you have permission to use.

Application Card Context Menu

Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:

either right-click anywhere in the card
or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right. Then click the 3-dot icon icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To display the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.

Context Menu Options

Available in context menu accessed from	Option	Description
application card and repository application name	Load Application	Load the selected application so that it is running in Application Mode.
application card	Load application in a New Tab	Open a new browser tab with the selected application loaded.
application card	Load Application in a New Window	Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded.
repository application name	Filter by Name	In the repository browser, use the application name to display only the repository tree for the selected application. The application is not loaded.
repository application name	Edit	In Design Mode, open the properties for the selected application.
repository application name	Delete	Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.

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