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)).

Related Actions

Action Name	Description
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 Properties	Extends 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.

Parameter	Description	Supports Tokens	Default	Required
List Name	Provide 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.	Yes	empty string	Yes
Properties	Specify the Property Names and Values to include in the entity.	Yes	None Specified	No