This step is very usefull to Clone some record. You pass the URL of one record, and it will create a new record, with the same values.
For using this activity you must access here and select Clone Record:
Then, you must select the record URL(dynamic) field from the entity you want to clone as follows:
The full params description is:
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Clonning Record URL (required) : the URL of the record you want to clone
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Prefix (optional) : the prefix will be addedd at the name attribute of the clonned record
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Fields to Ignore (optional) : the list of attributes you want to ignore in cloning, separate by ";" (in lowercase)
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Output parameter: Cloned Guid : the string with the GUID of the new record, you can use it like this:
Note: The Parent Record URL, is a standard feature of Dynamics CRM, that contains the full URL of a record. In this URL you have the entity type, and the record GUID. Right now this is the only way we have to pass a "Dynamic" EntityReference (with not hard coding an entity type) to Workflows Activities. If you pass this string URL as a parameter, in the Workflow Activity you can retrieve this entity Reference.