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

Open an application
On the Screen home page, right-click on a screen
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

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

Viewing Existing Startup Actions

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

Open the Startup Actions for the application by clicking on the Home button in the header bar
Select Startup Actions to see the current active Startup Actions
Double-click Default Menu to open the Startup Action Properties
Click on the Actionflow link to open the Actionflow
On the Actionflow canvas are the two screens that open when the application starts
Click on the message Calculate action to open its Properties
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
Close the Actionflow and reload the page to run the Startup Action

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