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title: Updates after application record creation from improvement initiatives
description: UI changes display on the source improvement initiative or CIM task record and on the corresponding application records of some applications when you create application records from improvement initiatives or CIM tasks.
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# Updates after application record creation from improvement initiatives

UI changes display on the source improvement initiative or CIM task record and on the corresponding application records of some applications when you create application records from improvement initiatives or CIM tasks.

-   Demand record

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Improvement Initiative

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Demand record

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Demands related list is added that contains the demand \(DMND\) record.

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-   **Continual Improvement Management** is set in the **Type** field.
-   Improvement initiative \(CIM\) record is set in the **Improvement** field.


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</table>-   Project record

    |Improvement initiative|Project record|
    |----------------------|--------------|
    |Projects related list is added that contains the project \(PRJ\) record.|No change.|

-   Change record

    |CIM task|Change record|
    |--------|-------------|
    |Change \(CHG\) record is added to the Change Requests related list.|No change.|

    The following are the corresponding states of the Change record and the CIM task.

    |CIM task state|Change record state|
    |--------------|-------------------|
    |New|New|
    |In Progress|Implement|
    |Closed|Closed|

-   Coaching Opportunity

    |CIM task|Coaching opportunity record|
    |--------|---------------------------|
    |Coaching opportunity \(COP\) record is added to the Coaching Opportunities related list.|No change.|

-   Knowledge Base article

    |CIM task|Knowledge Base article record|
    |--------|-----------------------------|
    |Knowledge article record is added to the Knowledge Articles related list.|No change.|

-   Agile Development Story record

    |CIM task|Story record|
    |--------|------------|
    |The story \(STRY\) record is added to the Stories related list.|No change.|


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