UI Action to Load New Record and populate information, but not submit

[Andrew Linenber]

Hello:

We are working on a scoped app and want to create a UI action to load a form on another table in the app with some information, but not actually submit the record.

So, from Record A (already submitted) on Table A, click "Generate", which will then lead to the form for a record on Table B, but not yet submitted.

I can use the following to load the form, but not have any information populated:

createRecord();

function createRecord() {
	
	var url = 'TableB.do';
	action.setRedirectURL(url);
	action.setReturnURL(current);
		
}

and I can use the following to automatically submit the form with the requested information

createRecord();

function createRecord() {
	var accomm = new GlideRecord ('TableB');
	accomm.tableB_field2 = current.getValue('tableA_field1');
	accomm.tableB_field2 = current.getValue('tableA_field2');
	action.setRedirectURL(accomm);
	action.setReturnURL(current);

but I can't rectify the two.

The functionality we want to replicate is **similar to*** the "New" Button on the Child incident related list on incident; when you click it (at least in our instance) it loads a blank incident form with some of the fields preloaded, but has not yet submitted the record. I need the UI action I am creating to do that, but lead from Form A to Form B with some fields on form B prepopulated  When I attempted to track down how that button works, I couldn't find it.

Any help is greatly appeciated.

[SanjivMeher]

I think you need a onLoad script.

When you click on new, you parent record will already be populated.

var pt = g_form.getReference('parent', popParentInfo);
function popParentInfo(pt){

g_form.setValue('short_description', pt.short_description);

g_form.setValue('field2', pt.field2);
}

[Andrew Linenber]

Thanks for the response.  I am not sure if that is what we are wanting, because we don't want it to lead to a child record, we want the button to lead to a new form on a different table that has not yet been submitted; I might have not explained it well enough with the Child Incident example above, so I edited/clarified what we are looking for.

[Ashutosh Munot1]

Hi,

You can use this:

incident.do?sys_id=-1 // This is URL. Redirect to this when you click on generate. You will see new form which is not submitted.

incident.do is just a example. You can use any table you want.

Thanks,

Ashutosh Munot

[Ashutosh Munot1]

HI,

Use this:

https://instance.service-now.com/incident.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=short_description=test

Thanks,

Ashutosh Munot