This page is for PhixFlow application designers who need to create a new application, or change the defaults for an existing application.
Overview
When you create an application in PhixFlow, you are configuring default properties for your application project. For how to create a new application, see Creating an Application.
Within the project, working in 
Design Mode. you can:
- define data relationships: see Entity Relationship Diagrams and Views Setup
- design screens that form the graphical user interface (GUI) of an application: see Screen Design
- connect parts of the screen to actions or actionflows that create functionality: Actionflows and Action Configuration.
Application users can load an application into 
Application Mode to interact with data, for example to view and update it.
This page lists the application properties. To access the application properties
- Go to the
Repositorytab.
If the tab is not present, in the PhixFlow toolbar, click the Repository icon. - In the Applications section, double-click your application's name.
- PhixFlow opens the properties tab for the application on the right.
Use the options to set:
- whether you want a menu bar, and which menu options appear there. We are promoting the user creating bespoke menus.
- access privileges to specify which users can use the application.
- the template that your application uses.
- data formats, if you do not want to use the PhixFlow defaults.
- any packages containing shared resources that your application can use; see Package.
Application Properties
Basic Settings
Field | Description | |||||
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Name | Enter the name of the application. | |||||
| Model Validation Status | todo - new | |||||
| Version | Specify a version number for your application. Use this to track the stages of development or maintenance for your application. | |||||
| Do not show in the Application Menu |
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| 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: Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : No link could be created for '_date_style'. : shows the formats available for this application in the repository.
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| 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 to use by default. PhixFlow uses data-bound components and layouts from this palette when you drag streams, views or attributes onto a dashboard canvas. | |||||
| Application Icon | Select an uploaded image to use in the application menu card for this application. We recommend an image size of approximately:
See Image for how to upload an image to PhixFlow. PhixFlow uploads application icons and logos to the images folder in its database. You can see a list of uploaded images in the repository > Images section. | |||||
| Application Logo | ||||||
Created by | The name of the person who created the application | |||||
| Description | The description of the application. Consider including the purpose of the application and who is responsible for it. | |||||
Navigation
Menus
This section lists the menus and the associated actionflows or table-item-actions that have been created for your application.
A default menu is created automatically with 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: These icons are out of date.
Desktop Menu
Mobile Menu
PhixFlow will display in the default menu in the menu bar:
- once options have been added
- and when Show Default Menu Bar is selected (see below).
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:
Use the buttons below the list to:
Create New add another menu to the list; see Menu properties
Delete delete the menu from this application.
Additional options related to user navigation are:
Field | Description | |
|---|---|---|
Show Application in Menu | Select whether or not this application appears in the | |
| Show Default Menu Bar | If you want menu options for the user to navigate your application, select this potion. PhixFlow displays the menu bar at the top of the application screen. Use the Navigation settings to add menu options. See PhixFlow's Interface for screenshots showing the default menu bar. | |
Access Permissions
For details about how to control access to an application, see Common Properties → Access Permissions.
Style Settings
Field | Description | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Theme | The name of the theme that defines the defaults and styles for this application. The theme provides a set of palettes and sets the style defaults, such as the styles for grids that you add to screens. Select the palette that you want to use when you drag stream attributes onto the screen. This should explain that they come from the selected template when creating an application, a template that has been associated with the application or any local palettes. PhixFlow uses this palette when its container application is running. What does this mean? If the container application for is not running, PhixFlow uses:
If you do not set a palette, PhixFlow uses the system default palette. You can change style settings:
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| Date | Select the default format for Date attributes and components. | Select a format from the drop-down list or click the icons to:
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| Date Time | Select the default format for DateTime attributes and components. | ||||||||
| Number | Select the default format for numbers. | ||||||||
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 Create New to list all the packages in the repository.
- Drag packages into this list.
To remove a package from the list, use the toolbar button Delete.
We now have special Template packages that act as themes.
todo This is still true we need to define the hierarchy of style settings.
From original doc and not covered by XD for new properties
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 View properties.
To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:
- Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : No link could be created for '_style_list'.: shows the styles available for this application in the repository.
- Create New: create a new style.
todo - check This may be moving to system
Field | Description | |
|---|---|---|
Application Logo | Select an uploaded image to provide customised branding for the application. When a user clicks this image, it will open the application menu. We recommend an image size of approximately:
See Image for how to upload an image to PhixFlow. | |
Application Menu and Context Menus Is this not covered earlier?
The Application Menu
When you run PhixFlow in Design Mode without loading an application, you will see the PhixFlow logo and text in the top left of the window. You can click this area to open the 
Application menu. The menu lists the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.
When you run PhixFlow in either Application Mode or Design Mode, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the Application menu opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow.
To open the Application menu at any time:
- either click on the logo/name in the top left of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo and name
. - or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the logo in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen. By default this is the PhixFlow logo
.
Your administrator can configure the graphic that appears in the menu bar in the application properties → Basic Settings → Application Logo option, below.
The Application menu lists the available applications as cards, for example:
Issue?
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, then click the
More Options icon, which is displayed in the top right.
Repository Application Context Menu
Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To display the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.
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Pop-up Menu Options
| Available in a pop-up accessed from | Option | Description |
|---|---|---|
application card and | 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. |