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 create new palettes and edit existing ones.

Sections on this page

Editing Palettes

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. 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.

For each palette, the following settings are configured.

Basic Settings

Field

Description

Name

Name of the palette.

Default Component Palette

Specify 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.

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.

Default Components

Field	Description
String Component	The default string component.
Long Component	The default long component
Float Component	The default float component
True/False Component	The default True/False (boolean) component.
Date Component	The default date component
DateTime Component	The default date & time component.
Action Component	The default action component
Form Component	The default form component
Card Component	The default card component
Description
Tooltip	The description that will appear at the tooltip.
Description	Description of this palette.

Description

Field	Description
Tooltip	The description that will appear at the tooltip.
Description	Description of this palette.