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Create Object

Audience: Citizen Developer

Skill Prerequisites: Using Form Builder

This action Creates an list in the current context to which you can load values from the current context. Use the action additional times to add items to the entity.

note

This creates an entity that can be used ONLY in the current context. This does not create a Plant an App Entity.

Typical Use Cases

  • Load values from a form or grid into an entity and then use Execute Actions for each List Entry to run the same actions on each item.

Don't use it to

  • Create an entity that will have values loaded from another source like SQL, CSV, CSV File, etc. Use the Load Entities (Source) actions instead (e.g. Create List from CSV file (obsolete)).
Action NameDescription
Execute Actions for each List Entry Execute a list of actions on each item in the specified context list. Use this to process the items loaded in the list created.
Extend Object PropertiesExtends a list with new properties.

Input Parameter Reference

The parameters unique to this action are listed below. Review the common parameters for all actions here.

ParameterDescriptionSupports TokensDefaultRequired
List NameProvide a name for the list being created. This name can be used in the Execute Actions for each List Entry action to reference the items in the list using [ListName:PropertyName] token syntax.Yesempty stringYes
PropertiesSpecify the Property Names and Values to include in the entity.YesNone SpecifiedNo