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 install additional Theme palettes. These are designed to have everything you need to create GUI screens by simply dragging the tiles from the palette into a dashboard. See also About Themes, Using Theme 2 and Designing Applications with Theme 2 Course.

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:

Right-click the repository branch → Application → Palette and select Add.
PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the palette. Name the palette and save it.
In the Layouts section, click the List Layouts button to see all the layout templates in the repository.
Drag layouts into the palette properties.
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 Permanently Delete. This removes the layout from the palette, but does not remove it from the repository.

Palette 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.

For each palette, the following settings are configured.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Name	Name of the palette.
Help URL	For palettes supplied by PhixFlow, this URL links to the help page about the palette. If you create your own palette, add a link to additional information to help people to use your palette. PhixFlow displays the palette header bar with a Help icon which links to the URL specified here.

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:

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

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

Default Components

Field	Description
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

Field	Description
Tooltip	The description that will appear at the tooltip for this palette.
Description	Description of this palette.