Overview

When you are designing screens, PhixFlow displays a list of the available palettes. You can expand a palette and drag components from the palette onto the screen.

You can create your own palette or add your own components to an existing palette. To do this, first convert your components and layouts to a template: see Creating a Palette Items. You can then drag the template into the Components section of the palette properties.

To make a palette available to an application, add it to the application's packages.

To make a palette available as part of the default style settings for and application, add it to:

either the package template for the application About Template Packages and Package properties.
or to the application default palette; see Application Properties.

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, its parent name is shown here. See the Parent Details section on the Common Properties page for more details.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Name	Name of the palette.
Help URL	For palettes supplied by PhixFlow, this URL links to the help page about the palette. If you create your own palette, add a link to additional information to help people to use your palette. PhixFlow displays the palette header bar with a Help icon which links to the URL specified here.

Components

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons.

Click List templates to open the full repository list of Templates. If you want to see only templates from your application, find your application → Templates.

Drag in the templates you want to appear in this group.

Palette Groups

Use palette groups to organise your components in the palette.

To add a palette group to your palette:

Click Create New.
PhixFlow opens the Palette Group properties.
Set the name and order. Add the components you require.
Apply and Close.

To remove a group from the palette, use the Delete in the toolbar.

Pallet Group Properties

Field	Description
Name	Name of the palette group.
Order	Enter a number to specify where this group appears in the palette.
Components	This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. Click List templates to open the full repository list of Templates. If you want to see only templates from your application, find your application → Templates. Drag in the templates you want to appear in this group.
Description	Tooltip Enter a tooltip. This will be displayed when a user hovers their mouse pointer over the palette group. Description Enter a description for this palette group.
Audit Tab Audit Summary	See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

Description

Field	Description
Tooltip	The description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette.
Description	We recommend you always add a description of this palette.

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 About Template Packages.

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

Palette