After defining task relationships, you can use UI Actions to define the task relationship when a new task is being created from an old task.

Below are a few examples.

Warning: These examples may not work on all instances. They are provided as illustrative examples.

UI Actions examples

Cause an incident

This UI Action allows the change management team to log an incident directly from the change request and records that the change caused the incident.

Create a UI Action on the Change Request [change_request] table and place the following into the script:
var inccaus =new GlideRecord("incident");
inccaus.short_description= current.short_description;
inccaus.comments= current.comments.getHTMLValue();
// inccaus.parent = current.sys_id;
inccaus.insert();
CauIncident();
 
gs.addInfoMessage("Incident "+ inccaus.number+" created");
action.setRedirectURL(current);
action.setReturnURL(inccaus);
 
 
function CauIncident(){
var m2m =new GlideRecord('task_rel_task');
m2m.initialize();
m2m.child= current.sys_id;
m2m.parent= inccaus.sys_id;
m2m.type.setDisplayValue("Caused by::Causes");
m2m.insert();}

Cause a problem

This UI Action allows the change management team to record a problem from a change request and record that the change caused the problem.

Create a UI Action on the Change Request [change_request] table and paste the following script:
var probcaus =new GlideRecord("problem");
probcaus.short_description= current.short_description;
probcaus.comments= current.comments.getHTMLValue();
// probcaus.parent = current.sys_id;
probcaus.insert();
CauProblem();
 
gs.addInfoMessage("Problem "+ probcaus.number+" created");
action.setRedirectURL(current);
action.setReturnURL(probcaus);
 
 
function CauProblem(){
var m2m =new GlideRecord('task_rel_task');
m2m.initialize();
m2m.child= current.sys_id;
m2m.parent= probcaus.sys_id;
m2m.type.setDisplayValue("Caused by::Causes");
m2m.insert();}

Fix a problem

This UI Action allows a change request to be generated from a problem, recording that the change fixes the problem.

Create a UI Action on the Problem [problem] table, and paste the following code:
var fixchg =new GlideRecord("change_request");
fixchg.short_description= current.short_description;
fixchg.comments= current.comments.getHTMLValue();
// fixchg.parent = current.sys_id;
fixchg.insert();
FixChange();
 
gs.addInfoMessage("Change "+ fixchg.number+" created");
action.setRedirectURL(current);
action.setReturnURL(fixchg);
 
 
function FixChange(){
var m2m =new GlideRecord('task_rel_task');
m2m.initialize();
m2m.child= current.sys_id;
m2m.parent= fixchg.sys_id;
m2m.type.setDisplayValue("Fixes::Fixed by");
m2m.insert();}