Layout Device Visibility - counted as action?

[tjd_15]

Hi all

Quick Question -

With rollout of responsive layouts, we have option of making individual components - or even full sections - visible or invisible on different device types.

My question is, whether implementing this type of device visibility under ‘layout’ tab is counted as an action or not (counted against monthly action quota)?

Because in old Adalo when we implemented conditional visibility, it is clearly counted as an action.

Appreciate any Adalo expert or Adalo staff input.

Thanks.

[tjd_15]

bumping for visibility and to avoid auto-closure…

Will only do it once for this topic. Not abusing the system.

Experts / staff, please help.

[adalojosh]

Setting a screen size visibility rule shouldn’t do anything to your actions.

[adalojosh]

Conditional visibility rules also don’t use actions, but the UI that is conditionally shown will use actions when your users begin to interact with it.

The list of action usage items is here:

App Actions Dashboard | Adalo Resources

[tjd_15]

Thanks Josh

I guess I’m 90% clear on what you said. Appreciate if you can confirm what I understood.

I am using default Adalo Table section to show a list.

When screen loads (+1) and list is fetched (+1), that is (1+1=) 2 actions.

That table section is made responsive by Adalo, so on Desktop/Tablet there is a header row, but on mobile device, the table uses column headings as labels in a single list item rectangle, which are text components set for conditional visibility on mobile only.

So according to your answer, displaying this text component does not count as conditional visibility action. Only If I add a click action to this conditional visibility component, it will count as an action(as it would for regular actions usage).

Let me know if this is correct. It would help a lot in designing responsive screens for tablet and mobile devices using icons instead of text label, etc.

[adalojosh]

You’ll use fewer actions than that. Get One and Get All do not count as actions unless you’re going through the API. Loading the list doesn’t hit your actions.