View Menu Item

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This page is for data modellers and application designers who want to configure options  that appear in a view component's header.

Overview

A view component on a screen is designed with a header bar. The options in the header bar are listed as Menu Items in the view properties. This page explains the properties for a menu item. Usually, these properties are set automatically when you drag a table-action or actionflow onto a view component's header; see the View properties, Menu Items section for details.

You can also create a new menu item, via the view properties → Actions tab → Menu Item grid, which opens the menu item properties.

Menu items can act like buttons or like menus. 

  • For a single option on the header bar, when the application user clicks the option, PhixFlow runs the associate action. This acts like a button.
    For this reason, PhixFlow messages related to menu items often refer to buttons.
  • For nested options on the header bar, when the application user clicks the top-level option, PhixFlow open the list of sub-options. In this case, the option acts like a menu.

Property Pane Toolbar

For information about the toolbar options, see the Common Properties page, Toolbars and Controls section.

 Properties Tab

Parent Details

If this item is within or belongs to another, it's parent name is shown here. See the Common Properties page, Parent Details section for more details.

Basic Settings

FieldDescription

Click Action

Select the type of action that PhixFlow will run when the user clicks on the option.

  • No Action
  • Table-Action
  • Actionflow
Actionflow

Available when Click Action is Actionflow. You must save a new menu item before setting this property.

To add an actionflow:

  1. Click  Actionflow to display a list of available actionflows in the repository.
  2. Drag the actionflow from the list into this field.

To create a new actionflow, click  Add New; see Creating Actionflows.

Action

Available when Click Action is Table-Action. 

To add a table-action:

  1. Find a table-action:
    • To reuse a table-action from a different table, click  List Tables to display a list of tables. Expand a table to see its associated table-actions.
    • To display a list of table-actions available to the parent table of this view, click Table-action.
  2. Drag the table-action from the list into this field.

Remember, if drag a table-action directly onto a header or into the View properties, Menu Items section, PhixFlow automatically sets these properties.

Name

Available for sub-menus.

Enter a name that PhixFlow uses to store this menu item. Use this name if you need to refer to this menu item elsewhere in PhixFlow. This is not the text that appears to the application user.

Display Name

Enter the option text that an application user sees in the view header, or sub-menu.

Order

Specify a number that is the order that the menu item appears:

  • either on the header bar, with 1 being the leftmost
  • or in a sub-menu list, with 1 being the first.
Menu Items

Available for sub-menus.

The grid lists the menu items nested in this menu item. To add more menu items, click  Add New.

 Audit Tab

Audit Summary

See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

Sections on this page

  Learn More

For links to all pages in this topic, see Designing Screens.



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