Dynamic Child task number

[Community Alums]

Hello,

I have a requirement to generate the custom/dynamic task number. I have a custom application where the parent request from creates 9 child tasks (task table is extended from OOB task table) here the child task number should should thing like "TASK- +Parent Number- + 01" the last two digests should go from 01 to 09. Please let me know if this is something doable?

Thanks,

Prudhvi 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Community Alums 

yes this is possible via scripting.

something like this in server side

// Assume parentGr is the GlideRecord of the parent request
var parentNumber = parentGr.number; // Or whatever field holds the parent number

for (var i = 1; i <= 9; i++) {
    var childGr = new GlideRecord('x_yourapp_child_task'); // Replace with your table name
    childGr.initialize();
    childGr.parent = parentGr.sys_id; // Or the relevant parent field
    // Generate two-digit sequence
    var seq = ('0' + i).slice(-2);
    childGr.u_custom_number = 'TASK-' + parentNumber + '-' + seq;
    // Set other fields as needed
    childGr.insert();
}

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[Community Alums]

Hi @Ankur Bawiskar - I am creating the task from flow designer and setting few fields from parent to child and  trying to set the number value from flow designer script but it's not setting the value.

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Community Alums 

you can use a flow variable to hold the counter and then re-use it in the next loop.

increment the flow variable with each loop

check this gif below, attaching it again to the comment

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[YaswanthKurre]

Hi @Community Alums ,

In flow designer you have to iterate 9 times  and create a record for each iteration, you are just iterating inside a variable and doing some random  update, this will not work.

Make sure you design your flow as @Ankur Bawiskar's script.

Thanks,

yaswanth.