17. Startup Actions

Owned by Anthony George
Last updated: Feb 08, 2023


Introduction

Startup actions are used to open specific screens when your application is opened by a user. In this chapter we will open the navigation menu and home screen.

Creating Startup Actions

  1. Open the screen's home page.
  2. Right-click on the Home screen, and select  Open screen on Startup.
  3. An actionflow is automatically created and set to run when the application is started.
  4. Right-click on the Main Menu screen, and select  Open screen on Startup.

Refresh your browser and when your application loads the navigation menu and home screen will open.

Startup Action

The startup action is located in the Repository under your application:

  1. Scroll down to Startup Actions and expand it.
  2. The Default Menu contains the details, including the details of the actionflow PhixFlow setup for us in the previous step.
  3. We will review this in the next step.

Edit the Startup Action

In 15. Editing Content on Screen - Part 2 we setup a home screen which included a welcome message. We will now setup the dynamic part of that message to include a users name.

  1. In the Default Menu opened in the previous section, click on the Actionflow link above My Application Startup...
  2. When the actionflow opens ensure the two Open Screen action are separated as illustrated below:
  3. Right-click on the connector between in and Open (Home), and remove it.
    1. Move Open (Home) to the right slightly.
  4. From the toolbar drag a Calculate action, in between in and Open(Home).
    1.  Name, Message.
  5. Connect in to Message, and, Message to Open(Home) as illustrated below:
  6. Click on Message to open its properties.
  7. In the Calculate Attributes click . Set:
    1. Name, welcome
    2. Expression, _user.firstName
    3. Save your change.
  8. Click on the connector between Message and Open(Home) to open the mappings.
    1. Drag welcome to Header2Dynamic.
      1. If you are mapping to a screen and not sure of the name of the item you are mapping to, open the screen and take a look in the layers pane.
    2. Click Confirm Mapping.
  9. We need to reload our application to test the change, the easiest method is to click refresh in your browser.

Home Button Update

We now need to go and update the actionflow behind our Home button to include the same calculate and message. Repeat the steps above to apply the welcome message to the home screen when it opens using the Home button.  


Check Point

In Application Mode your application will look similar to this: