Make email the task parent

[SoBeGuy]

When using the Create Task function to create a task from an email, it sets the task parent to the contact and links to the email in the description. I think it would make more sense to make the task parent the email rather than the contact. This would give the task a first-class relationship with the email rather than using the description field, which feels like a workaround. The parent of the email would still be the contact, so this would allow for a clean hierarchical navigation from Task->Email->Contact.

I added the Email entity to the task parent options in the relationship, but of course that has no effect on the Create Task button behavior. How can I customize the behavior of the Create Task button, to make it work as I've described?

[rabii]

You can create a custom detail view for the email which extends the existing view and then change the function createTask()

https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/blob/2548f396efe772400ad2def70a5c994845ec487b/client/src/views/email/detail.js#L363

[SoBeGuy]

Thank you, I'll give it a try!