Menu Options and Toolbar Buttons

This page is for PhixFlow data modellers and application developers. It describes the different menu and toolbar options available in the PhixFlow interface.

List Views 

There are several places where you can switch how PhixFlow displays list items. 

•  Condensed List
•  Card List

You can also set your preference for the application menu in User Details.

Tooltip Descriptions

Most PhixFlow objects have an optional description field. PhixFlow will display this description as you hover over the object in a list or on a model. We recommend that you provide descriptions for all your objects to help document your work for both yourself and colleagues.

Header Bar Options

The Header bar is the grey bar at the top of the PhixFlow window.

Option	Description
Left Side
Running Actions: n	Information about the number of actions that are currently running.
Dismiss Notifications	Only available when there are open notifications. Close any green or blue notification messages that are open.
Show/Hide Windows Bar	Toggle between showing or hiding the windows bar. This bar displays icons for all the items, such as models, views and screens, that are open in the workspace.
Right Side
User Options	Open user options menu, which includes access to the User Details window.
Logout	Logout of PhixFlow. Returns PhixFlow to the startup screen so that you must log back in to resume work.
Console	Show the System Console. This displays currently running tasks and log messages from PhixFlow processes.
Downloads	Show the download area. This displays files created by an export process that are ready to download; see Using the Download Area.
Palette	Open the Changing or Creating a Palette tab on the right. You can drag preconfigured layout components from the palette into screens.
Repository	Open Using the Repository. This shows all of the available items in your PhixFlow instance.
Administration	Select options related to importing or exporting applications, packages or table data. Also contact PhixFlow for support. See Administration menu, below.
Application Mode  Design Mode	The icon indicates the view or mode you are currently using. In  Design Mode you can create data analysis models and design applications. In Application Mode you can run your application. Click the icon to switch between the views.
Help	Open the PhixFlow Help Overview page in a browser window.

Model Popup Menu

Right-click any object to open its popup menu. One key popup option is Permanently Delete which is always the last item on the list (to help ensure it is not pressed accidentally)! 

Note that all objects that appear on Analysis Models have a popup option Show Models,  which will display a list of all the models that contain that object.

Common Icons in Grids, Views and Windows

There are two types of grid display. The first are simply lists of the configuration objects but showing more details than the repository. The second type of grid shows a data record. The operations on configuration object grids are all very similar (e.g. add, delete, refresh etc.) however data grids will have additional operations which are all described on the help page for that object.

The following general features of grids are worth noting:

The items on grids are paged which means that PhixFlow fetches a batch of data at a time to populate the grid. The grid footer bar indicates which items are being shown, how many items there are in total and the page size. The user can page forwards and backwards using and . Note that the user can also change the page size (the number of rows brought back from the PhixFlow Database). Please note that with very large datasets it will be more efficient to filter the the data rather than page through it!

Columns can be ordered by clicking the column header. Each click reverses the order direction. Please note that only the items currently paged in the display are ordered.

The following functional icons are common to many grids:

View Popup Menu

When you drag attributes onto a layout, such as a screen or form, PhixFlow prompts how to display the data.