Static Menu Creation

Adding Menu Options

To add menu options, in the repository for your application find the true branch. For a new application there is always one menu option, which is added by PhixFlow when you create the application.

Double-click the menu item to open its properties.
Optionally, you can change its Name.
In the Menu Items section, click true.
Select one of:
- Add a new sub-menu
- Add a new menu item
PhixFlow opens a new menu item properties.
- For a menu item, select an action and specify the order for the menu in the menu bar.
- For a sub-menu, enter a name, a display name and an order. Then add the Menu Items for the sub-menu.

The structure of the menu items in the repository reflects the menu structure you have created, for example:

The top-level menu item is the top of a tree of menus in the repository. The menu items listed in the top-level menu are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the screen. The top-level menu does not have a display name because it acts as a container for the menus, rather than being a menu option itself.
Menu options are associated with an action. Actions are often linked to underlying tables. When a user clicks the option, PhixFlow runs the action. For example, if your application has a form to which a user can add data, the menu option "Save Changes" would save the data to the underlying table.
A sub-menu contains more menu options or sub-menus, so it is not associated with an action. Sub-menus are displayed with a drop-down arrow to indicate they contain a list of options.

PhixFlow displays menu options and sub-menus on the menu bar. For example the menu structure illustrated above displays the following menu options:

You can create multiple top-level menus, but PhixFlow can display the options contained in only one top-level menu.

Changing the Default Menu

To specify a default menu for an application, in the repository, right-click on the menu name and select:

either Make Default Desktop Menu
or Make Default Mobile Menu.

To specify an alternative menu to display instead of the default, provide users with a URL to the application that specifies the alternative menu.

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