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You have created a screen that displays the data. But you also want your users to be able to edit data records. So you will now add a form area to the dashboard.
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Add fields to the form
- Click on the
BusinessData
stream properties tab. - In the stream properties, select the attributes
UID
through to Active
- Shift-drag the attributes onto the left area.
PhixFlow creates a set of form fields for the attributes. - Shift-drag the
Description
attribute onto the right area.
PhixFlow creates a field for the description. As this attribute has the type "bigstring", PhixFlow creates a field with an editing toolbar, to make it easy to edit the description text.Your form should now look like this:
The form is displaying the first data record. If you select different data records in the table, the form display does not change. But you want the form to display the currently selected record. To make this happen you need to connect the form to the data.
Link the form with the data
To display the company name in the form title:
- In the dashboard, click on Header Fixed and change its properties → Display Text to
Business Details -
and Save. - In the dashboard,click on Dynamic and change its properties → Name to be:
Name
As PhixFlow knows there is an attribute called "Name", it will use the name value of the currently selected record in the "Dynamic" area.
To link the table content with the form content:
Click on the UID column header and drag it onto the form and confirm.
This tells PhixFlow that the form should display the selected record in the grid.
- PhixFlow opens a properties tab for the filter. Click OK to close it.
Now when you select a different record in the table, PhixFlow displays the selected record in the form.
Add a map of the business location
- From the palette, drag a Form Content component onto the blue form background and name it
Map Area
. - From the palette, drag a Google Map component onto the new area.
- Right-click in the dashboard and click Lock the Layout.
This switches PhixFlow from editing the dashboard to displaying the dashboard as an application user would see it. - Click different rows in the data table. The map updates to show the location of currently selected business, using its postcode.
Use your new application
You can now switch to a user-view of your application. In the bottom right of the PhixFlow window is an icon that shows you are currently in Design Mode. Click this icon to switch to App Mode.
Things to try
In the data table, select any record, and notice that the form contents and map changes.
Update a field in the form, and notice the data in the table changes. (Remember to click the Update button)
Add a description for a record. Add some formatting.
You have now completed the PhixFlow Quick Start course. You have worked through the general process for using PhixFlow to create a simple application, and practiced the simple drag-and-drop techniques common in PhixFlow.
PhixFlow has many more features that you can use to build applications. You can learn more in the Building Applications training course.
If you are interested in loading and changing data using analysis models, try some of the Introduction to Modelling training course.