Overview

1. Opening a landing screen.
2. Opening a custom navigation menu bar.
3. Opening a static menu. 

If you do not want to create your own navigation menu, the startup actions provide the ability to create a static menu bar for your application, on which you can add menu options. These contain top-level menu items, which is the container for menu options. The menu options can be:

• either options that trigger an action
• or sub-menus that list other menu options. 

For applications that are designed for use on both PCs and mobile devices, it is possible to set startup actions independently for either or both. 

Startup Landing Screen (Automated Creation)

Adding a Screen

1. Open an application.
2. On the Screens home page, right-click on a screen.
3. Select

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   1. If a Startup Action exists this screen will be added to it.
   2. If no startup action exists, one will be created.
4. More than one screen can be added to the startup Action.

Removing a Screen from the Startup Action

1. Open an application.
2. On the Screens home page, right-click on a screen
3. Select 

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   Remove from the Application Startup Action.

Start Landing Screen and/or Navigation

1. In the repository, open 

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   .
2. Click 

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3. Enter a Display Name.
4. Toggle on one or both of the following, as appropriate. Typically both are

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   .
   1. Default Desktop Startup Action
   2. Default Mobile Startup Action
5. Click 

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   , this creates the Startup Action.
6. For Action Method select Actionflow.

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      : If you have an actionflow which opens the desired screen or screens click the actionflow button to navigate to it and drag it into the place holder.

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      : If you need to create an actionflow click add new:
      1. Enter a Name and click Confirm.
      2. The Actionflow opens.
      3. Click on Connect.
      4. Select on Click.
      5. Click

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          on the toolbar.
      6. Drag the desired screens and or navigation menus you want to be present when your application opens for a user.
      7. Now drag the connection point to each of your screens as illustrated below:
      8. 
      9. Changes are automatically saved, so close your actionflow.
7. Click

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    to save your startup action and close it.
8. Now when you next open the application it will open the selected screens.

To learn more about navigation menus see Adding a Navigation Menu Bar.

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Basic Settings

Learn More

• Understanding Actionflows
• Using Table-Actions

For links to all pages in this topic, see Connecting Events to Actions