[Vtigercrm-developers] Workflow action to create a record and use the parent record's owner - similar to Create Task

[Alan Lord]

A couple of related tickets:

https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/issues/1588

https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/issues/926

https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/issues/39 (Might have some 
clues in Satish's patch)

HTH

Al


On 13/08/2025 10:02, Alan Lord wrote:
> This has been a known problem for a long time...
> 
> http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2014-January/025380.html
> 
> I thought I had created a ticket on code.vtiger.com for it but can't 
> find it.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> On 12/08/2025 19:30, Steve Kenow wrote:
>> At first glance, I thought the addition of 'Create Task' to the 
>> workflow actions applied to Projects and Project Tasks, because I was 
>> looking at adding project tasks to a project. In that action, you have 
>> the action to assign the task to the parent record's owner. It turns 
>> out that what that creates is a *Calendar* Task. Using the Create 
>> Record action (what I had been using all along), the option to assign 
>> to the parent's owner isn't there.
>>
>> What needs to be modified to add this option to other assigned to 
>> fields, specifically for workflow actions - create entity?
>>