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

Overview

The application is an object which defines the PhixFlow instance's properties like its menu bar.

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

click the PhixFlow logo to open the application menu; see The Application Menu, below.
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.

When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates its menu. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch. The menu item has the application name with the _Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top bar; see Menu.

Sections on this page

For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Property Tabs.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Name	The name of the application.
Version	The version number of the application.
Default Date Format	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: create a new format.
Default Date/Time Format	Select the default format for DateTime attributes and components.
Default Number Format	Select the default format for numbers.
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.

Style Settings

In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:

Grid Header Style
Grid Header Button Style
Grid Header Icon Style
Grid Header Drop-down Button Style
Grid header Drop-down Pane Style
Grid Paging Style
Grid Row Style
Grid Column Header Style
Row Selection Style

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:

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

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.

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: add another menu to the list
Permanently Delete: delete the menu from this application.

Access Permissions

Field

Description

All Users Can View Application

Tick all users can view this application.

Untick to specify the user groups that can access this application.

User Groups

This section is only available if All Users Can View Application is unticked. This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and User Groups.

The grid contains a list of user groups that have permission to access to this application. To add a user group to the list:

Click User Groups to list all the user groups in the repository.
Drag user groups into this list.

To remove a user group from the list, use the Permanently Delete in the toolbar.

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 to list all the packages in the repository.
Drag packages into this list.

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

Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

In both App Mode and Design Mode, you can click on the PhixFlow logo and name ,on the top right of the PhixFlow screen, to open the list of applications available. The applications are shown in cards, for example:

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.
Click the 3-dot icon icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open 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 App 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	Permanently Delete	Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.