# Starting a ServiceAbility


A ServiceAbility is started in the same way other abilities. You can start a ServiceAbility by calling **featureAbility.startAbility()** in the PageAbility or calling **particleAbility.startAbility()** in another ServiceAbility. For details about the startup rules, see [Component Startup Rules](component-startup-rules.md).


The following example shows how to use **startAbility()** to start the ServiceAbility whose **bundleName** is **com.example.myapplication** and **abilityName** is **ServiceAbility** in a PageAbility. When starting the ServiceAbility, concatenate the **bundleName** string before **abilityName**.

```ts
import featureAbility from '@ohos.ability.featureAbility'

async function startServiceAbility() {
  try {
    console.info('Begin to start ability')
    let param = {
      want: {
        bundleName: "com.example.myapplication",
        abilityName: "com.example.myapplication.ServiceAbility"
      }
    }
    await featureAbility.startAbility(param)
    console.info(`Start ability succeed`)
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Start ability failed with ' + error)
  }
}
```


In the preceding code, **startAbility()** is used to start the ServiceAbility.


- If the ServiceAbility is not running, the system calls **onStart()** to initialize the ServiceAbility, and then calls **onCommand()** on the ServiceAbility.

- If the ServiceAbility is running, the system directly calls **onCommand()** on the ServiceAbility.