Automatically trigger actions

You can automatically trigger an action or a sequence of actions without involving a user’s action.

Some actions do not require the user, such as triggering the automatic animation of the home screen. To do this, you have some triggers available: Current Screen Display & Current State Display.

To choose these triggers and set up your action, go to your screen/state and do not select any object. Open the Actions window and click + Add.

Select the Current Screen/State Display trigger and set your action.

All the triggers are detailed here: Triggers

Practical example: run an action only on the first visit

A common use of Current Screen Display is to detect the very first time a user opens a screen — for example, to show a welcome message or an onboarding overlay that should never repeat.

The pattern works as follows:

1. Create a Boolean variable (e.g., onboarding_shown) in a PandaSuite database with no default value.
2. Add a Condition component and create a condition that checks whether onboarding_shown is Unknown or empty.
3. On the screen, add a Current Screen Display trigger that evaluates this condition.
4. When the condition is true (first visit), display the onboarding content and set onboarding_shown to true.

From the second visit onwards, the variable is set, the condition is false, and the onboarding is skipped.