PhixFlow Help
Application
Creating a New Application
To create a new application:
either in the repository, right-click Applications and click Add
or, open the Application menu; see The Application Menu, below.
Click the last card, which is the New Application card:
When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates a menu item for it. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch → application_name
_Menu
. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the menu bar at the top of the PhixFlow window; see Menu.
For information about sharing components or data between applications, see Package.
Application Properties
For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Property Tabs.
Basic Settings
Field | Description | |
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Name | The name of the application. | |
Version | The version number of the application. | |
Do not show in the Application menu | Controls whether or not this application appears in the Application menu. Untick to include this application. Tick to exclude this application. This is useful for test applications that you do not want to appear on the menu. | |
Default Date Format | Select the default format for Date attributes and components. | Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to: List Formats: shows the formats available for this application in the repository. Add: create a new format. |
Default Date/Time Format | Select the default format for DateTime attributes and components. | |
Default Number Format | Select the default format for numbers. | |
Default Component Palette | Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto a layout or area. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running.
If you do not set a default palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette. | |
Application Icon | Select an uploaded image to use in the application menu card for this application. We recommend an image size of approximately:
| See Image for how to upload an image to PhixFlow. |
Application Logo | Select an uploaded image to provide customised branding for the application. When a user clicks this image, it will open the application menu. We recommend an image size of approximately:
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Style Settings
In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:
Grid Header Style
Grid Header Button Style
Grid Header Icon Style
Grid Header Drop-down Button Style
Grid header Drop-down Pane Style
Grid Paging Style
Grid Row Style
Grid Column Header Style
Row Selection Style
The styles you select override any styles set in System Configuration. You can override these defaults for individual grids using the style settings in the Stream View properties.
To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:
List Styles: shows the styles available for this application in the repository.
Add: create a new style.
Menus
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.
You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices. In the grid, right-click a menu to display the context menu and select:
Desktop Menu
Mobile Menu
PhixFlow displays the mobile or desktop icon next to the application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:
You can also use the context menu to:
Add add another menu to the list
Permanently Delete delete the menu from this application.
Access Permissions
For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.
Packages
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages that contain this application. To add an application to the list:
- Click Add to list all the packages in the repository.
- Drag packages into this list.
To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button Permanently Delete.
Application Menu and Context Menus
The Application Menu
When you run PhixFlow in Design Mode without loading an application, you will see the PhixFlow logo and text in the top left of the window. You can click this area to open the Application menu. The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.
When you run PhixFlow in either App Mode or Design Mode, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the Application menu opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow.
To open the Application menu at any time:
- either click on the logo/name in the top left of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo and name .
- or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo .
Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, below.
The Application menu lists the available applications as cards, for example:
The Application menu displays the applications:
- that have been configured to appear on menu
- and that you have permission to use.
The repository → Applications branch displays the applications that you have permission to use.
Application Card Context Menu
Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:
- either right-click anywhere in the card
- or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right. Then click the 3-dot icon icon.
Repository Application Context Menu
Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To display the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.
Context Menu Options
Available in context menu accessed from | Option | Description |
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application card and | Load Application | Load the selected application so that it is running in App Mode. |
application card | Load application in a New Tab | Open a new browser tab with the selected application loaded. |
application card | Load Application in a New Window | Open a new browser window with the selected application loaded. |
repository application name | Filter by Name | In the repository browser, use the application name to display only the repository tree for the selected application. The application is not loaded. |
repository application name | Edit | In Design Mode, open the properties for the selected application. |
repository application name | Permanently Delete | Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone. |
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