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 Step 1 Create a Screen
  1. In the repository,  Add a dashboard.
  2. Set:
    • Name to Manage Contacts
    • Tick Open Maximised
  3.  Save
  4. PhixFlow opens an empty dashboard on the left.
  5. Right-click and select Unlock the layout
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 Step 2 Add the data
  1. From the Business File stream properties tab, drag the stream icon onto the top half of the dashboard.
  2. Select the table grid icon  and the attributes you want to display.
  3. Drag the attributes into the dashboard.
  4. Close the list of attributes.
  5. Right-click again and select Add Vertical Bar
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You can show data as a table, but also as charts

Look and feel comes from default settings. You can change these


 Step 3 Create a form
  1. Right-click and select Create New Form, and enter a name.
  2. Open the  Show Palettes and expand the section pf AppBuilder (Theme 1).
  3. Drag the Form Title into the form and enter the name Title.
  4. Drag in the Form Body and enter the name Business Body.


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  • Add a form.
  • In the dashboard, right-click on the empty bottom half. and select Create New Form
  • Enter the name for the form and click > OK
  • PhixFlow adds a form background using the styles that have been set as defaults for this application. 

You will now add the form fields using palettes - which are predefined layouts. 

  • To access the pallets, go to the bottom right of the PhixFlow window and click the  Show Palettes icon.
  • PhixFlow opens a tab. Each section has a set of pre-designed components  Expand the section pf AppBuilder (Theme 1).
  • Click on Form Title and drag it into the form. This component is going to create an area on your form. Enter the name "Title" This is the name of the component in the repository. This adds the header area to the form. It has two parts, a Fixed section, which you can overtype , and a dynamic, which we will link to the data.
  • Now drag in the Form Body and name Business Body.

Now PhixFlow had added more stuff, with two parts, including some buttons "New" and "Insert". We are going to use the left to show the selected record, and the right to show its description or a map.

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