Available Attributes Window
- Fiona Sargeant (Unlicensed)
- Zoe Baldwin
- Anthony George
This page is for data modellers and screen designers who want details on the Available Attributes window.
Overview
To display data from a table you use a view. For example, when you drag a table onto a screen canvas, PhixFlow asks if you want display the table's data as a grid, chart, card or form; these are all types of view. You can then select the attributes you want to appear in the view, as well as apply sorting and filtering; see Displaying Data (Views). Views can include attributes from different tables, provide the tables are related; see Entity Relationship Diagrams.
Whenever you create or edit the attributes in a view, PhixFlow displays the Available Attributes window.
The window lists:
- on the left:
- the current (base) table for the view
- tables that have a relationship to the base table
- on the right: the available attributes for the selected table.
To use the window,
- From the current table, select the attributes you want to use in the view.
To select, you can:- click into the tick box
- click in one line then shift-click in another, to select multiple consecutive attributes
- control-click to select multiple attributes that are not consecutive.
- Drag the selected attributes to the destination.
Depending on where you are working, the destination might be a view on a screen or a list of attributes in the view properties. - Click on the name of a related table to show the available attributes for that table.
- Select any related attributes and drag them to the destination.
- When you have finished, click X to close the window.
To redisplay the Available Attributes window:
- In a screen, right-click on a view component and select Show Attributes...
- In the view Properties tab, in the View Attributes section, click Show Attributes button.
To open the view properties:
- In an ERD,
- click on a table to open its properties.
- In the Views section, click on a view name to open its properties.
- In the repository:
- Expand Tables → base table → Views.
- Double-click the view name to open its properties.
Learn More
- Displaying Data (Views)
- View properties
- View Attribute properties
- Table properties
- Entity Relationship Diagrams
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