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Phone calls created for parents account need to be created for child accounts also

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Hi All,

When a phone call is created for a parent account, then the same phone call needs to be created for the child accounts as well.

What's the best option to do that?

I appreciate any help!

Thanks,

Praveen.

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  • Suggested answer
    meelamri Profile Picture
    13,216 User Group Leader on at

    I will use a plugin. You can also use Flow for this scenario

  • Verified answer
    cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi Praveen,

    It's recommended to use Power Automate to achieve such requirement.

    1. Create a solution in PowerApps, then create a flow from the solution:

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    2. Important: please use "Common Data Service(current)" connector throughout.

    3. Overview of flow, due there are many steps in the flow, 

    so next I will only post screeshot with description for each one action.

    However, steps of whole process are easy and you will get same flow finally. 

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    4. Action 1, it's obvious that trigger flow on creation of phone call.

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    5. Action 2, retrieve "Call To" parent account id from related Activity Party records.

    When we populate "Call To" field with a record and save a phonecall, system will automatically generate a corresponding record(Activity Party) which contains phonecall activity id and "Call From"/"Call To" record id.

    It could be said that this type of record is a connection.

    When participationtypemask field of the record equals to 2, it stands for "Call To".(1 stands for "Call From".)

    So filter is _activityid_value eq 'phone call id' and participationtypemask eq 2

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    6. Action 3, we can now retrieve child accounts.(The outer "Apply to each" will automatically appear and surround "List records" action.)

    Filter here is _parentaccountid_value eq 'party id value', 

    _partyid_value is a field of Activity Party entity, which is used to stands for "Call To" record id.(parent account)

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    7. In final action(4), we will create phone call only when child account exists. 

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    Due to phone call is activity type record, so we should set Call To and Call From fields by way below:

    Activity Party Attribute Name - 1: 

    Call From

    Activity Party Attribute Value - 1: (plural)

    /systemusers(owner of parent phone call)

    Activity Party Attribute Name - 2: (click ellipsis icon to add new row)

    Call To

    Activity Party Attribute Value - 2:

    /accounts(child account id)

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    Result:

    Create a phone call for Contoso, Ltd

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    Other phone call activities will be created for child accounts.

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    You could take article below as reference for how to create activities with Power Automate.

    https://www.inogic.com/blog/2020/02/creating-activities-using-power-automate-flows-now-possible/

    Regards,

    Clofly

  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi Praveen,

    Is it working for you?

    Or please let me know whether you still have any doubt.  :)

    Regards,

    Clofly

    Please kindly mark as verified if you had found any answer helped, it would be really appreciated.

  • Praveen Kumar Ellappa Profile Picture
    160 on at

    Hi Clofly,

    Thanks for the response. I will try on Power Automate and let you know how it goes.

    Regards,

    Praveen.

  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi Praveen,

    Thanks, I will wait for your feedback.

    Regards,

    Clofly

  • Praveen_e04 Profile Picture
    60 on at

    Hi Clofly,

    Sorry for the delayed response.

    I have followed steps mentioned in your post, but it failed. Not sure what mistake I am doing, as I am new to Power automate.

    FYI - In our environment, Phone Call has renamed to "Interaction".

    Thanks,

    Praveen.

  • Suggested answer
    Bipin D365 Profile Picture
    28,983 Moderator on at

    Hi,

    Could you please send screenshot of your flow configuration to check your issue.

    Please mark my answer verified if i were helpful

  • Praveen_e04 Profile Picture
    60 on at

    Sure. Here you go.

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    Thanks,

    Praveen.

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