This page is for PhixFlow application developers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.

Overview

In PhixFlow you can combine layout components, such as tables, charts, menus and buttons, to create screens (dashboards). By connecting the layout components to the data in streams, you can create applications. Application users can load an application to interact with the stream data, for example to view and update it.

You can use the application properties tab to configure the application to set:

different data defaults compared to the PhixFlow system defaults
default style settings to use for all the layout components in the application
the options to appear in the menu bar for the application
access privileges to specify which users can use the application.

Loading an Application

There are several ways to load an application. You can:

click the PhixFlow logo to open the Application menu; see Application, below
in the repository, right-click on the application name and select Load Application
in a browser, enter the application URL; see Starting PhixFlow on the Client. When PhixFlow is started in this way, you can still navigate to other applications that you have permission to access.

Sections on this page

Creating a New Application

To create a new application:

either in the repository, right-click Applications and click Add New
or, open the Application menu; see Application, 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. The menu item has the application name with the _Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top menu bar; see Menu.

Application Properties

For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. We recommend you always add a Description that explains the purpose of the item you are creating.

For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Properties, Windows, Menus and Toolbars.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
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. Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : No link could be created for '_check_box_ticked'. 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 New: 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 the container application for is not running, PhixFlow uses: either the default palette set for the area. or the default palette for the destination application when you are dragging stream attributes into a layout for a different (destination) application that is running. If you do not set a default palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette.

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:

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: shows the styles available for this application in the repository.
Add New: 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 New: add another menu to the list
Delete: delete the menu from this application.

Access Permissions

Field

Description

All Users Can View Application

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all users can view this application.

Untick to specify the user groups that can access this application.

User Groups

This section is only available if All Users Can View Application is unticked. This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and User Groups.

The grid contains a list of user groups that have permission to access to this application. To add a user group to the list:

Click User Groups to list all the user groups in the repository.
Drag user groups into this list.

To remove a user group from the list, use the Delete in the toolbar.

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 New to list all the packages in the repository.
Drag packages into this list.

To remove a package from the list, use the Delete in the toolbar.

Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

In both Application Mode and Design Mode, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the Application menu opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow. The Application menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.

You can open the Application menu at any time.

Either click on the PhixFlow logo and name , in the top left of the PhixFlow screen.
Or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the PhixFlow logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen.

The applications are shown in 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.
Click the 3-dot icon icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.

Context Menu Options

Available in context menu accessed from	Option	Description
application card and repository application name	Load Application	Load the selected application so that it is running in Application 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	Delete	Delete the selected application from the repository. This cannot be undone.