Configuring Actions

In PhixFlow, you can design application screens. To turn a screen into a user interface, you must configure the operations that PhixFlow will run. Usually, these operations will change: 

• either data, for example to update or delete records.
• or the application interface, for example to close one screen and open another.

For example, you can:

1. Design a form with editable fields and buttons.
2. Connect the form to a stream, to populate the fields with data.
3. Make changes to data in the fields.
4. Click the "Save" button.
   At this point there will be no change to the data in the stream until you have configured the button to perform the operation of updating the data in the stream.

To configure an action to:

• Operate on data: to create, update or delete data. These actions are connected to the stream that holds the data
• Run a task
• Run analysis on a model
• Open or close a screen/dashboard
• Display prompts or messages to communicate with the user.

You can optionally configure

• the contexts in which the action will or will not run using context parameters
• a prompt to confirm the user wants to run the action
• that PhixFlow checks the conditions to allow the action to run are met (validation)
• a task plan that will run after the the action
• any dashboards to open or close when the action completes
• a message to display after the action completes, for example with errors and warnings.

The pages in this topic are:

• Action
• Stream Item Action Rule
• Context Parameter
• Drag Types and Drop Targets
• Task Plan Rule