PhixFlow Help

Palette

Overview

A palette provides quick access to set of configured layout templates, which you can dragging onto forms to create layout components.

PhixFlow comes with two default palettes:

  • Basic Components: contains all basic layout components, such as String Field and CheckBox without any additional labels and styling.
  • Labeled Fields: contains a set of predefined form fields that have configurable labels. This is the palette to use when designing application forms. 

You can also configure PhixFlow to use automatically use your prefered palette, see application properties → Basic Settings → Default Component Palette.

Sections on this page

Editing Palettes

You can create new palettes and edit existing ones.

To create a palette and add components:

  1. Right-click the repository branch → Application → Palette and select  Add.
  2. PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the palette. Name the palette and save it.
  3. In the Layouts section, click the  List Layouts button to see all the layout templates in the repository.
  4. Drag layouts into the palette properties.
  5. Optionally, you can use the same layout template for specific types of component, such as a date field, card or action. Drag the layout template from the repository list into the corresponding field in the Default Component section.

To remove items from a palette right-click on the item in the palette and click  Delete. This removes the layout from the palette, but does not remove it from the repository.

Palette Properties

The toolbar has the standard iconsFor information about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties.  For information about other property tabs, see Property Tabs.

For each palette, the following settings are configured.

Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameName of the palette.

Layouts

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and  List Layouts

The grid contains a list of layout components that this palette contains. To add a layout to the list:

  1. Click  List Layouts to list all the layout components in the repository.
  2. Drag layout components into this list to add them to the palette. 

To remove a layout template from the palette, use the  Delete in the toolbar.

Default Components

FieldDescription
String Component              





Add a layout template

  • either select one from the drop-down list. 
  • or drag in a layout template from the repository list, opened from the Layouts section toolbar:  List Layouts
Bigstring Component
Long Component
Float Component
True/False Component
Date Component
DateTime Component
Action Component
Form Component
Card Component

Description

FieldDescription
TooltipThe description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette.
DescriptionDescription of this palette.

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