need to call force:createRecord from lightning component used in visual force page

Question

I am try to call lightning component from VF Page and trying to call force:createRecord from lightning component. but getting below error message:

This page has an error. You might just need to refresh it. Action failed: c:workLineItem$controller$doInit [Cannot read property 'setParams' of undefined] Failing descriptor: {c:workLineItem$controller$doInit}

Below is code snipped

VF Page

<apex:page>
    <apex:includeLightning />

    <div id="lightning" />

    <script>
        $Lightning.use("c:workLineItemApp", function() {
          $Lightning.createComponent("c:workLineItem",
          { label : "" },
          "lightning",
          function(cmp) {
          });
        });
    </script>
</apex:page>

Lightning App

<aura:application access="GLOBAL" extends="ltng:outApp">
   <aura:dependency resource="c:workLineItem"/>
</aura:application>

MarkUp

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable" access="global" >
   <aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.doInit}" />    
</aura:component>

Controller

({
  doInit : function(component, event, helper) {

       console.log("WorkLineItemController.doInit: Entered");

       var createNewRecord = $A.get("e.force:createRecord");

       createNewRecord.setParams({
           'entityApiName': 'WorkOrderLineItem'
       });
    createNewRecord.fire();

       console.log("WorkLineItemController.doInit: Exit");

}
})

Answer 1

The force:createRecord event is

... handled by the one.app container. It’s supported in Lightning Experience, the Salesforce app, and Lightning communities.

Visualforce Lightning Out pages are not equivalent to the one.app container and do not support this and many other events.

If your core objective, as you mention in comments, is to prepopulate fields upon record creation, I would encourage you to try to execute this requirement using the purely declarative functionality available through Lightning Quick Actions of the Create Record type. You can add predefined field values, including static values and formula expressions, that will be populated whether or not you include the field on the Quick Action's layout. You can find examples on Trailhead.

If this does not provide enough flexibility, you can write a custom Lightning component and surface it as a Quick Action within Lightning Experience. The Visualforce page button is causing you to do a lot of unnecessary work and limiting your solution options.

Answer 2

An alternative would be to instead use a lightning:recordEditForm to create the record. This is the component I use when embedding forms, or prepopulated forms in visualforce from lightning components.

You will however need to add more code to your markup and handle what happens once the record is created.