Copy an incident or create a child incident

Copy an incident or create a child incident without manually entering the value of all the fields in the new incident.

Before you begin

• Role required: itil, sn_incident_write, or admin
• Select the Enable copy incident feature (com.snc.incident.copy.enable) and the Enable create child incident feature (com.snc.incident.create.child.enable) incident properties at Incident > Incident Properties.

Note:

An itil user can copy or create a child of any incident whereas a user without any role can copy only the incident which the user has created.

About this task

The Copy Incident functionality copies the details of an existing incident record to a new incident record. The Create Child Incident functionality copies the details of the parent incident and links the new incident to the parent incident. You can enable the options as well as add or remove fields or related list using the copy incident and create child incident properties.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Incident > Open.
2. Open an existing incident that you want to copy or from which you want to create a child incident.
3. Perform one of the following actions.

   Option	Action
   Copy an incident	Click the Additional actions icon and then click Copy Incident. Note: After the incident is copied, the Work notes field of the new incident is updated with the following message: Created from a similar incident: INCXXXXXX.
   Create a child incident	Click the Additional actions icon and then click Create Child Incident. Note: Ensure you have added the Parent Incident field and the Incident -> Parent Incident related list to the incident form. The incident, from which you have created the child incident, is considered as the parent incident.

4. Fill out the other fields, as required.
5. Click Submit.
   The default fields and related lists that are copied from the parent incident are:

   From where	What are copied
   Fields	Category Subcategory Business Service Configuration item Impact Urgency Assignment group Short Description Description Related lists Caused by Change Location Company Problem Change Request Parent incident Note: If the problem, change, or the parent incident is not active, then details of those fields are not copied.
   Related lists	Affected CIs Impacted Services Service Offerings Note: The supported related tables are: Affected CIs (task_ci) Impacted Services (task_cmdb_ci_service) Service Offerings (task_service_offering) Business Applications (task_cmdb_ci_business_app) You cannot add any other table in this field but you can remove any of the default values.