Using the Insert Child Object Quick Action

You can use the Insert Child Object quick actionA user-defined operation that performs one or more actions with a single click of the mouse. to create a child object for a business object. For example, you can define a quick action to create a new task object each time a change is set to logged.

Within the Change workspace, from the action menu, choose Edit Actions.

From the Create New Actions tab, select Insert Child Object. The Insert Child Object configuration page appears.

Enter information into the fields.

--fields--

Field	Description
Set action name	A unique name for this quick action.
Category	The category. Select from the drop-down list.
Publish to	The roles that need access to this quick action.
Child Object Reference	The child object. Select from the list. Fields from the task form appear as selections under the field name rows.
Web UI Parameters	Generally for internal use only. Only used to post the object to the social board. This field takes only one expression: {socialshare:true, elementId: $(elementId)} For example, in the incident object, this field is used in the post social message associated with incident quick action.

Enter information into the fields to set the default values to appear in the default task.

For example:

Field	Value
Field Name	Choose Status.
Field Value	Choose Logged.

Field	Value
Field Name	Choose Summary.
Field Value	Enter New Task for $(ChangeNumber).

Field	Value
Field Name	Choose Owner Team to assign the new task to a team.
Field Value	Choose a team from the drop-down list.

Field	Value
Field Name	Choose LastModBy to update the Last Modified By field.
Field Value	Enter $(CurrentLoginId()).

Field	Value
Field Name	Choose LastModBy to update the Modified On field.
Field Value	Enter $(CurrentDateTime()).

Click Save