Missing "Run OnStart"

[snowfox]

I'm no longer to find "Run OnStart" under App. There is only "Navigate to StartScreen". Is there the alternate way to run OnStart in the app editor window?

Note: I have tried in Chrome and Edge.

[Gary_Eden]

Hi @Nao_ 

For now the only workaround I have is to save, close and reopen apps to push the changes through - a right pain.

If this is going to be a while before it's fixed I'll need to move the OnStart code to my splash page OnVisible and/or a button to trigger the code and then copy/paste the code back to OnStart when I've finished tweaking it.

Not ideal either way but quicker than having to save, close & reopen.

[Nao_]

Hi @Gary_Eden ,
Thanks for your answer !
The button idea is the best for me now, but i really hope this issue will be fixed soon !

[dkayt]

Hey guys,

I'm also facing the same problem.

[wjhep]

The lack of ability to run OnStart is really a huge miss by Microsoft.  Not sure who thought this was a good idea but as you can see here, it is not.  The issue with the current Microsoft thinking is that we should push initialization code into a screen which is not generally a good design practice to begin with.  This forces developers to have to flip to another screen and flip back to get the OnVisible property to trigger.  It further causes more code to be added into one location.

Microsoft, you all have done this before in VB, C# and even back to Access.  Please fix the event model in PA or this platform will sink.  Will add a feature request but really.. it was a feature that worked just fine before you opted to retire it.

[bkumar]

In my application somehow the App.OnStart was missing i followed the solution as provided in this tread and can see the OnStart.. 
My main problem is that the code that I had written in the OnStart formula bar has gone missing , though the application is working fine and the gloabl variable that i declared there are also visible in the global variable list .. but the code is missing from the formula bar.

[bkumar]

Sorry It was my mistake, my issue was resolved i was looking at it in wrong place I had my code on HomePage.OnVisible.

Please ignore the above issue that I had reported