Create a CRM task

Australia Customer Success Management

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australia

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en-US

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Australia Customer Success Management

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actle

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actle

workflow

Customer and Industry

Create a task in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Release version: Australia

Updated March 12, 2026

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Create a task in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform from your ServiceNow instance and receive updates to the task in your ServiceNow instance.

Role required: sn_acct_lc.customer_success_agent

Navigate to All > Customer Success > All Risks and Issues.
Open the risk record for which you want to create a task.
If you have configured the Create CRM task option, you can see it on the Risk and Issue page.
See Enable integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for details on configuring this option.
Select Create CRM task.
A new task is created in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. The details of the account, engagement, and contracts associated with the risk record are displayed.
Note:
If you modify or update Priority or Status fields in the task that was created, the updates are displayed as worknotes in your ServiceNow instance.
Navigate to Workspaces > CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace and select the List icon.
Navigate to Customer Success > All Risks and Issues and open an risk record.
You can see the worknotes that show how the task was updated.
Worknotes are displayed if you have configured:
- The Microsoft Dynamics CRM update mechanism (so that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can access the Microsoft Dynamics spoke webhook) when the configured event occurs in the task table. See Set up Microsoft Dynamics CRM spoke for details.
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM spoke (see Microsoft Dynamics CRM Spoke).
  - Decision table according to the requirement
  - Webhook (Dynamics Webhook Callbacks)
- Customer Success Management application has been configured for Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration. See Enable integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for details.