# Event that fires when opening a page?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/event-that-fires-when-opening-a-page/23809>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/event-that-fires-when-opening-a-page/23809 "2019-04-03T00:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![silverbacknet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/silverbacknet/32/7385_2.png) [@silverbacknet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/silverbacknet)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/event-that-fires-when-opening-a-page/23809/1 "2019-04-03T00:35:06Z")

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I’m curious whether any bindable event fires each time a page is loaded, rather than the actual Session startup, or if there’s something I can stick on the page that just immediately fires once. I need to take some parameters that are being passed to the page and run them through a the database to set everything up, but the script for onStartup doesn’t run like that.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/event-that-fires-when-opening-a-page/23809/2 "2019-04-03T00:35:45Z")

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View or component startup should probably do what you need?

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**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/event-that-fires-when-opening-a-page/23809/3 "2019-04-03T14:10:05Z")

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There is nothing that fires when “opening” a “page” (we’re trying REALLY hard to make sure that users understand that Views are not “pages”, but all Page Configurations must have a linked View, and that even configured Pages aren’t opened in the purest sense), but Views do have their own Startup Events. You can locate and configure these events by right-clicking a View node (not the root node, but the actual named View) in the Project browser, and then selecting “Configure Events”.

There is a known bug where this option is not always immediately visible, depending on whether or not the View node was already selected; if you don’t see the option, left-click the View node, then right-click it again.