1.18 Startup Actions

Owned by Zoe Baldwin
Last updated: May 02, 2024
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Startup Actions

 Startup Actions are Actionflows that run when an application is first opened. Example uses:

  • Opening a landing screen
  • Opening a navigation menu bar

Configuring Startup Actions

Adding a Screen to the Startup Action

  1. Open an application
  2. On the  Screen home page, right-click on a screen
  3. Select  Open screen on startup
    1. If a Startup Action already exists, this screen will be added to it
    2. If no Startup Action exists, one will be created

Multiple screens can be added to the Startup Action.

Removing a Screen from the Startup Action

  1. Open an application
  2. On the  Screen home page, right-click on a screen
  3. Select  Remove from the Application Startup Action.

Viewing Existing Startup Actions

  1. Open an application
  2. Click on the  Home button in the header bar
  3. Select  Startup Actions to see the current active Startup Actions for your application
  4. The icons indicate the defaults set:
    1.  indicates a default desktop Startup Action
    2.  indicates a default mobile Startup Action
  5. Double-click on an action to view more details
  6. New Startup Actions can be added by pressing 

Worked Example

Here's a worked example using the School Data (available from the Learning Centre).

In this example, we are using:

  • A Home screen containing text and an image - this screen was created using the Landing Screen 1 template

If you are completing this chapter as part of the Actionflow course and using a training instance, this data has already been pre-loaded into the Actionflow Foundation Application. For this example, we'll be working on the Home screen.

We want to configure a message on the Home screen to display the user's full name when they open the application.

Configure the Startup Action

  1. Open the Startup Actions for the application by clicking on the  Home button in the header bar
  2. Select  Startup Actions to see the current active Startup Actions
  3. Double-click Default Menu to open the Startup Action  Properties
  4. Click on the Actionflow link to open the Actionflow
  5. On the Actionflow canvas are the two screens that open when the application starts
  6. Click on the message  Calculate action to open its  Properties

  7. Double-click on the Output Attribute, pfMessage, to open its  Properties and make the following changes to the Expression:

    1. _user.firstName + " " + _user.lastName
       Checkpoint

  8. Close the Actionflow and reload the page to run the Startup Action