QuickStart Guide

QuickStart guide to Modelling in PhixFlow

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Introduction to PhixFlow

PhixFlow is a Data Workflow Management platform which can gather data from any system, analyse and transform that data, apply business rules and then create (and if required, email) dashboards, reports and templated spreadsheets. On top of the analysis, users can configure Applications. These provide end users with controlled access to sets of configured custom forms that display linked collections of data (both the transformed data and real time data). Each application can be configured with sets of linked menus that control how users can interact with the data e.g. modifying, new data entry, opening other forms, triggering further analysis etc. have menus the collected data use and modify the collected and analysed data. configured linked PhixFlow can automatically monitor the analysis results and generate alarms and workflows when configured rules are triggered and can update external systems directly.

Help Overview

PhixFlow help is context sensitive so as you move through the application click to view help relating to that form. However there are many other pages that can only be reached through the content tree (on the left here) and other links within the help system. If you find any errors in the help pages or if the text is unclear or topics are missing, please email us at feedback@phixflow.com and report the problem.

Good places to start are the Navigation page and the Client Application Notes as information here is generally applicable to all uses of PhixFlow. We also recommend that you make use of the Glossary / Index as this contains definitions for key terms and links to relevant pages.

The following list provides a brief overview of the help system. Note that you can dip into pages as and when needed or you can follow the Next links at the bottom of each page to read through the help in a logical order.

Navigation	How to navigate around the PhixFlow application.
Analysis Modelling	How to configure both analysis models and workflow models. This section includes help on writing expressions and more complex scripts and includes detail help on the attribute functions.
Charting and Reports	How to configure PhixFlow to create your own Charts, Dashboards and Filters.
System Administration	How to administer Users and set up Roles, Privileges and User Groups. This section also describes how to set up Task Plans e.g. to schedule analysis and archiving jobs to happen at specified times. Finally this section also describes how to monitor what is happening in PhixFlow e.g. logs summarising analysis tasks and a full audit trail of all configuration modifications.
Form Descriptions	Detailed descriptions of each form in PhixFlow.
Training	PhixFlow training courses including workbooks and PowerPoint slides
Release Notes	Links to all PhixFlow release notes providing a summary of the content of each release.
Glossary	A summary of all the key objects/terms in PhixFlow with links to relevant help paqes.
Installation and Upgrade	How to install a new PhixFlow instance or upgrade an instance from an earlier version.

PhixFlow - Who Are We?

PhixFlow is developed by PhixFlow Ltd., a software company based in Cambridge, UK. For more information on PhixFlow, or to contact us, go to www.phixflow.com.