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Create entity

Description​

This activity creates a new QuickBooks Online entity of the specified type inside your QuickBooks Online Application.

note

You can only use this activity inside the QuickBooks Online Context activity.

  • Specify the entity type from the drop-down
  • Once the entity type is selected, the activity loads all the mandatory properties for creating the record. You can fill in the corresponding values and create a record.
  • You can add additional properties and their corresponding values to be set:
    • Choose the property from the drop-down containing a predefined list of names in the LHS of multi-assign control.
    • Specify the appropriate value in RHS.

Conditionally Required Property Validation

  • The validation criteria change for conditionally required properties depending on the entity selected.

Create Entity Design

Properties​

Misc​

  • DisplayName – The display name of the activity.

  • Private – Logs the variable and argument values at the Verbose level when unchecked.

Optional​

  • Continue On Error – It Specifies whether the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. If True, the activity continues without throwing any exceptions. If False, the activity throws an exception. The default value is False.
    note

    Catches no error if this activity is present inside the Try-Catch block and the value of this property is True.

Output​

  • Entity - Returns the created entity object of the selected entity type.

Example​

Here is a simple create entity sequence with appropriate properties set.

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Create Entity