Action Basics

Information about Actions in Adalo

Quickly Learn about Actions in Adalo

In this video, we review everything there is to know about Actions — from moving from screen to screen to interacting with the database; actions are the vehicle to create interactivity in your app!

Watch an overview of Actions in this short YouTube Tutorial

If components are like nouns, we like to think of actions as verbs. Actions are what connect components to the properties of your database and allow you to customize your app's user experience. Actions can be used to direct the user to another screen, to allow them to click and interact with your components, and to submit data to a database.

Most Commonly Used Actions

• Link

• Change Data

  • Create - Creates a new Record in your Collections.

  • Update - Updates a specified Existing Record in your Collections.

  • Delete - Deletes a specified Existing Record in your Collections.

Less Commonly Used Actions

• Authentication

  • Sign Up - Creates a new User Record and Logs the User into the app.

  • Log in - Logs the User into the App.

  • Log out - Logs the User out of the App.

User Login Sessions will expire after 20 days. This is the current default and cannot be changed. Read More about Login Sessions here.

• Mobile

  • Trigger Push Notifications

  • Share

• Permissions

  • Request Notification Permission

  • Request Location Permission

Actions can be Conditional so that they only happen if certain logic is met.

Learn More

To learn about Custom Actions, which you can use to integrate your Adalo app with other systems, click here.