# No Page Startup Event in 8.0.17

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958 "2021-08-16T13:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![sydney.bergeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sydney.bergeron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sydney.bergeron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/1 "2021-08-16T13:39:57Z")

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I recently upgraded our Ignition Instance from 8.0.14 to 8.0.17.

I was hoping I'd be able to use the Page Startup Session Event to do some tracking of which pages get visited the most.

Kind of like this:

> [@Page Startup Event - Get Current User](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/page-startup-event-get-current-user/40373):
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> Is it possible to get the current user’s user id/name from within the Page Startup event? Without a reference to self or session, I’ve not been able to. Thanks.

Is there no page startup event in 8.0.17? Does it only exist in 8.0.16?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/2 "2021-08-16T14:07:56Z")

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It looks like this event wasn’t added until 8.1.0.

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**Author:** ![sydney.bergeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sydney.bergeron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sydney.bergeron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/3 "2021-08-16T14:25:13Z")

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Ah, I linked the wrong Forum post.

This one references 8.0.16. But it could be a mistake.

> [@'Usage Tracking' with Auditing?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/usage-tracking-with-auditing/40054):
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> We are interested in tracking our project(s) page/view usage by user - a bit like Google Analytics, but much simpler. It seems the [Auditing feature](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Audit+Log+and+Profiles) gets close to this, but I am unsure if it can be configured to do what we want, which is basically to log the project, page/view being visited along with the current user and timestamp, preferably into a database table (like the Audit feature does). What options do we have here? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/4 "2021-08-16T14:32:19Z")

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> [@sydney.bergeron](#):
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> recently upgraded our Ignition Instance from 8.0.14 to 8.0.17.

why upgrade but not to the lastest version? or did i miss something and is 8.0.x not compatibale with 8.1.x

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/5 "2021-08-16T14:42:03Z")

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> [@sydney.bergeron](#):
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> This one references 8.0.16. But it could be a mistake.

I think it must be a mistake. In our issue tracker it's got 8.1.0 set as the release version and the commit history seems to indicate the same.

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**Author:** ![sydney.bergeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sydney.bergeron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sydney.bergeron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/6 "2021-08-16T14:44:58Z")

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8.1 is not supported with the same license. Would have to pay to upgrade.

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**Author:** ![sydney.bergeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sydney.bergeron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sydney.bergeron)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/7 "2021-08-16T14:45:21Z")

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Thanks Kevin!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/8 "2021-08-16T22:23:26Z")

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> [@sydney.bergeron](#):
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> 8.1 is not supported with the same license.

So you upgraded to a non-long-term version without planning to upgrade after its (very short) life? That's on you.

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**Author:** ![sydney.bergeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sydney.bergeron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sydney.bergeron)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/9 "2021-08-17T20:05:14Z")

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> [@pturmel](#):
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> So you upgraded to a non-long-term version without planning to upgrade after its (very short) life? That’s on you.

That's not a particularly helpful comment, is it?

I was just replying to Victor's question about why we hadn't upgraded to 8.1. I never claimed it wasn't "on us."

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/no-page-startup-event-in-8-0-17/49958/10 "2021-08-18T06:35:48Z")

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ah alright, didnt know, im not the one handling licenses here xd
