Test Your Knowledge

You have now learnt how to create and configure simple Actionflows in PhixFlow. To reinforce the techniques you have learnt, complete these assignments. Note: A training instance is required to complete these assignments.

Don't worry, this is not an exam. You can use the Help to broaden your understanding and assimilate knowledge. A number of hints have been provided; use these if you are struggling as each hint gives you more information on the solution.  

Assignment 1

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1. Configure the Students button on the Menu (screen) to open the Student Management screen  
   1.  Hint (Which Action Node?)

      See 1.07 Open Screen Action Configuration

2. Configure the Save and Delete buttons on New Student Form screen to save and delete data in the School Students table
   1.  Hint (Which Action Nodes?)

      See 1.09 Save Action Configuration and 1.12 Delete Action Configuration

Assignment 2

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1. On the Student Management screen, when a new student is created using the New Student button, we want the Intake Year field on the New Student Form screen to be prepopulated with the current year in the format, YYYY 
   1.  Hint 1 (Which Actionflow?)

      Modify the Actionflow on the New Student button on Student Management screen.

   2.  Hint 2 (How to Show the Current Year)

      Use one of PhixFlow's Functions to retrieve the current year. 

      What type of Action Node can perform a function?

   3.  Hint 3 (Which Action Node?)

      Use the dateGet function in an Output Attribute in a  Calculate action.

      See 1.11 Calculate Action Configuration.

   4.  Hint 4 (Helpful Reminders)

      Check your mappings all the way through the Actionflow and remember to map your new Output Attribute onto the IntakeYear field.

2. When a user tries to save a new student, we want a confirmation screen to appear that allows the save to be confirmed or cancelled
   1. Bonus Task: add a static text component to the confirmation screen with the Display Text, "Are you sure you want to create the new student,". In the Actionflow, map the name of the new student onto the dynamic text component, Message
   2.  Hint 1 (Which Actionflow?)

      Modify the Save Actionflow on the New Student Form screen.

   3.  Hint 2 (Confirmation Screen)

      Create a confirmation screen using the Confirmation template. See 1.13 Confirmation Message Configuration.

   4.  Hint 3 (Bonus Task)

      From the palette, add a Header 1 - Static component to the screen and add the Display Text specified above. 

      Within the Confirmation phase of the Save Actionflow, add a  Calculate between the input node and the Open Screen node.

      Add an Output Attribute with the Expression:

      in.Name

      Map the Output Attribute onto the Message dynamic text component.

3. Set up the Students grid on the Student Management screen to contain a button in the Web column that open the student's website when clicked. Use the Action Icon  Style, WebsiteIcon
   1. Web icon: 
   2.  Hint 1 (Displaying WebIcon Attribute)

      Unhide the WebIcon attribute by right-clicking the grid and selecting  Show the View Configuration.

      Note the hidden attribute, Website, this contains the URL. Leave this attribute hidden.

   3.  Hint 2 (Creating Actionflow and Icon Style)

      Set up the Actionflow and icon style by clicking the Web header in the grid. In the Properties for the WebIcon View Attribute, click the  Actions tab.

   4.  Hint 3 (Icon Style)

      For the Action Icon Style, click  List Styles to see the preconfigured styles in the app. Drag the WebsiteIcon style into the Action Icon Style box on the  Actions tab, or you can create your own style using the WWWIcon.

   5.  Hint 4 (Actionflow)

      This Actionflow is the same as the one setup in 1.14 Open URL Action Configuration, except the Expression for the Output Attribute is:

      in.Address

Assignment 3

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1. When a new student is created on the New Student Form screen, we want the form to contain validation. Create a new validation rule stipulating:
   1. the Name field is mandatory
   2. the Name field must contain at least 3 characters
   3. the Name field must adhere to the pattern, ^[A-Za-z\s-]+$
   4.  Hint 1 (How to set validation)

      Remember validation is setup on the inner input field.

   5.  Hint 2 (Mandatory)

      Setting a field as mandatory is configured using the tick box and toggle button in the Validation section of the Properties tab.

   6.  Hint 3 (New Validation Type)

      Create a new validation type with the following settings:

      Base Type: String

      Minimum Length: 3

      Pattern: ^[A-Za-z\s-]+$

2. We want the status of a course to be dynamically updated to On Hold if the associated classroom's status is changed to Unavailable (use drop down, define the statuses)
   1. Add an attribute to the School_ClassRooms data, with the name, ClassroomStatus, a Type of String and a blank Expression
   2. Use the Classroom Availability screen to change the classroom status  
3. We want to see a list of the courses that each student is enrolled on. Set up a button, using a lookup, on the Student Management screen that opens the Courses Enrolled screen with this information on
   1. Bonus Task: Map the student name onto the dynamic text component, StudentName, so that when the Courses Enrolled button is pressed, the selected student name shows
      1.