This page is for data modellers and screen designers who want details on the Available Attributes window.

Overview

To display data from a table you use a view. For example, when you drag a table onto a screen canvas, PhixFlow asks if you want display the table's data as a grid, chart, card or form; these are all types of view. You can then select the attributes you want to appear in the view, as well as apply sorting and filtering; see Displaying Data (Views). Views can include attributes from different tables, provide the tables are related; see Understanding ERDs.

Whenever you create or edit the attributes in a view, PhixFlow displays the Available Attributes window.

The window lists:

on the left:
- the current (base) table for the view
- tables that have a relationship to the base table
on the right: the available attributes for the selected table.

To use the window,

From the current table, select the attributes you want to use in the view.
To select, you can:
- click into the tick box
- click in one line then shift-click in another, to select multiple consecutive attributes
- control-click to select multiple attributes that are not consecutive.
Drag the selected attributes to the destination.
Depending on where you are working, the destination might be a view on a screen or a list of attributes in the view properties.
Click on the name of a related table to show the available attributes for that table.
Select any related attributes and drag them to the destination.
When you have finished, click X to close the window.

To redisplay the Available Attributes window:

In a screen, right-click on a view component and select Show Attributes...
In the view Properties tab, in the View Attributes section, click Show Attributes button.

To open the view properties:

In an ERD,
1. click on a table to open its properties.
2. In the Views section, click on a view name to open its properties.
In the repository:
1. Expand Tables → base table → Views.
2. Double-click the view name to open its properties.

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Terminology changes in progress

As part of the redesign of PhixFlow, we are changing the following terms:

dashboard → screen
stream → table
stream attributes → attributes
stream item → record
stream set → recordset
stream view → view
stream item action → record-action
stream action → table-action
driver class → database driver

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