The My Unresolved Items page allows you to assign an item to an existing contact/lead, but is there a way to quickly create leads/contacts for each item? Basically the items aren't associated with any contacts in the database but I would like to quickly make a lead/contact out of each one.
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Unless your administrator has Quick Create turned on for your org, there is no way to do this. With Quick Create turned on, you'll see a "New" button when you use the lookup field (click the magnifying glass icon), which allows you to create a new record on the fly. However, many administrators turn off this feature, because it causes data quality problems.
You always have the option of not assigning the task/email/event to a record by using the "Don't Assign" radio button. Otherwise, you'll have to create the new records first and then fix your unresolved items list.
you can fire a trigger on "My Unresolved Items" with an after insert event, and later on in the same trigger assign this newly created Contact and lead to your custom object..
