How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

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Hello,

I have a workflow setup that sends out an email to users when a certain field is changed to complete. However, I need to add a step in the workflow to add an activity to the parent entity to show that an email was sent. Is this possible, if so how? (The parent entity is Opportunities and then I have a child entity underneath)

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

I was able to work around this by adding a child workflow. So right after my email is sent I run my child workflow which points to the Opportunity record. I created a task to just say that the email was sent to the owner and included the owner of the record. There is no link to the record by doing this which I know, but it works for what I need. Thank you for the screenshots and the walk through that you provided above, that did help.

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

Hi USA80,

As mentioned before, if you are going to use the Send Email step, you will not be able to reference it in later conditions or steps.

If you are going to use the second option I gave you, it would need to look like this:

As stated before, creating the email as a record allows you to reference the email and any other activity. You will need to set the created emails status to Pending Send to ensure that it is sent.

You will also need to be aware that conditions are instant checks. Emails, depending on your configuration, can take up to two minutes to send, meaning your create task will be created regardless of the email being sent or not.

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Hi USA80,

Could I ask for a screen shot, not sure I follow.

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

I am on the child entity, and when I go into my workflow, I add a step for Create Record and select Task. When the next window comes up, I don't see where I can select activity. Am I doing this right?

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

Hi USA80,

Those same fields exist on CRM 2013, 2015, 2016 and Dynamics 365.

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I am on CRM 2016

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

Hi USA80,

It should so long as there is a reference to the parent. If there is a reference, when creating the activity for the parent, simply put the parent of the regarding child record as the dynamic slug of the activities regarding lookup field. If there is no reference, then you may need to consider either adding the parent lookup to the email as a reference or creating a custom workflow to connect it.

Out of the box Dynamics 365 Emails have two status fields, namely Activity Status and Status Reason. The status reason field will have the values: Pending Send, Sending and Sent.

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RE: How to create a workflow that creates an activity?

The email that is being sent is coming from the child record, not the parent. So does the above still work in this situation? I also don't have an email status field.

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