The 'onStartup' event script fires multiple times when the project is saved

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Hello everyone,

I have a script running in the onStartup event for all the views in a project to save log data.

The issue is that every time I save a view, and a client is currently on that view, the script fires again, causing fake logs to be saved in the database.

How can I prevent this?

Thank you for your help!

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You cannot. The startup event is almost never the right event to use for such purposes. Please share what you actually need done.

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I understand. I just need to log all the pages that users navigate to.

The script in the onStartup is is as follows:


	# Logger 
	viewName = self.view.id.split('@')[0]
	user = self.session.props.auth.user.userName
	project = system.util.getProjectName()
	timezone = self.session.props.device.timezone.id 
	Generali.Session_Info.userSessionInfo(user=user, project=project, viewName=viewName, timezone=timezone)

The function that is called just insert in the database the data according to my needs.

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But that isn't going to catch all of the navigation. That event doesn't catch all returns to a view, so is not fit for your stated purpose. You should be instrumenting the actions where navigation is initiated.

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Move this to a project script that will take parameters and then when you click on a navigation button or have an action like @pturmel said to navigate run it there. It will be a simple one-liner someScript.logNavigation or something of the sort.

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So for example in my case I should work on the menuTree component where I manage the navigation?

@Benjamin_Furlani I'll make a test, thank you for the help

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