Use a auto incremented number across multiple lists

As we use lots of sites which all have their own issue list to track issues per project, i was wondering whether it's possible to add a column to these lists (to their content type) which automatically adds a number which is unique across all lists/sites.
Is this possible?

Lists have a Unique ID attached to each item (hidden field) that you could potentially use, but you will have to come up with a custom solution if you don't want ID's to be duplicated across your site collection. One thought is to attach a workflow to
each list you want unique ID's for, and copy the content to a separate list. This will create the unique ID's you are after.
List 1 > Workflow > ContainerList with unique ID
List 2 > Workflow > ContainerList with unique ID
While the originating lists will have their own 'unique' ID's, the TRUE unique ID you are after will be contained in the "Container" list. As each item is added, the workflow will create a duplicate item in the "Container" list, which will
also have a unique ID assigned to it. This way, all lists with the attached workflow will have a separate ID in the "Container" list you can utilize. Messy, but it works.

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Creating auto-increment field in SharePoint List

In SharePoint, we can create the auto-incremental field by many ways, I am going to discuss two ways of doing it.
Calculated field
Item Event Receiver
1. Using Calculated field:
Using this we can accomplish it without doing any programing and it is a relatively simple way of doing it. By using “Calculated” column in SharePoint List we can create auto-increment field. We can accomplish this by creating a new column and choosing the
column type as “Calculated (calculation based on other columns)”. And in Formula field, we have to enter [ID]
In fact this will be using the values from “ID” field from SharePoint list that starts from 1.
For example, if we want to start our auto-increment column from 100, we can modify the “Formula” field of Create New column screen, we can have to enter [ID] + 99
For detailed info please follow the blog I wrote here: http://faisalrafique.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/creating-auto-increment-field-in-sharepoint-list/
2. Using Item Event Receiver:
By using this strategy, users have advantage to edit the existing values, we can also avoid it by making field read-only on feature activation. Using item event receiver, on ItemAdded event, we have to find the highest value among previously added items
and then save the incremented value to current newly created auto-incremental column.
For code of event reciever please follow the blog I wrote here:
http://faisalrafique.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/creating-auto-increment-field-in-sharepoint-list/
Happy Coding

Use Sharepoint Designer to create a Workflow for the list containing the field to increment. For my project I had an Invoice field that I wanted to start with 1001 and increment from there so I made the following workflow to do this.
In the new workflow screen in Sharepoint Designer create two actions in Step 1:
Calculate Current Item:ID plus 1000 (Output to Variable: calc)
then Set AutoIncrementNumber to Variable: calc
This is just a guide. If you just want the auto-increment to start with 1 then you can just use this step
Set AutoIncrementNumber to Current Item:ID
Also, make sure you select the correct name for your field in the Workflow action instead of AutoIncrementNumber.
Save the Workflow, close it, and then open it again in Sharepoint Designer. Check the box for "Start workflow automatically when an item is created." Save it again and then click on the Publish button to make it active on the sharepoint site. The value should
now increment for each new item created in the list.

Re auto increment number

Hi experts
i had a fms query for auto increment number for a field query is
SELECT 'HB#'+cast((MAX(SubString(U_VSPPROJ,4,Len(U_VSPPROJ)))+1) as Varchar(4)) from ORDR where U_VSPPROJ Like 'HB#%%'
gives a result of HB#1 to HB#999 this is for financial year 13-14 but now i want to reset it from HB1 for this FI year how can i do that
Please help me on this
Regards
Prathap

Hi
The Query is
SELECT 'HB#'+cast((MAX(SubString(U_VSPPROJ,4,Len(U_VSPPROJ)))+1) as Varchar(4)) from ORDR where U_VSPPROJ Like 'HB#%%'
given a result of HB#1 to increasing +1 value in previous year 2013-14
now i want same from HB#1 in this fi year 2014-15
how to reset it from HB#1 from this f year
please help me on this
Thanks and Regards
Prathap

Is there easy way to create auto increment number?

Hello SharePoint Fam,
Is there a easy solution to have a auto increment column that just creates new number on each new item.
Wanting something like:
14-0001
14-0002
14-0003
14-0004
14-0005
Thanks n advance

If you need a simple auto increment column then you can use "ID" field which is already present in Sharepoint.
It will increment in this fashion: 1,2,3,4...........
or
you can take field as "Calculated" and use formula (="14-" & [ID]) without parentheses.
it will increment in this fashion 14-1, 14-2, 14-3............
or
try this link...may be you will find something helpful here...
http://dlairman.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/add-a-unique-auto-incrementing-column-to-a-sharepoint-list/
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Auto increment number in BO

Hello All,
In my CAF code, I need to persist one variable and increment in every time the AS is called. To elaborate further, I have a business object (entity service) which stores the customer records. The customer number has to be auto incremented. The response of this service is the customer number which is auto generated.
Please let me know how to go about it simplistically. Do we have the concept of static variables, the same of instance of which can be accessed by various service calls?
Thanking you all in anticipation.
Regards,
Keerti

Hi Keerthi,
You can use the concept of static.
If i had understood correctly, you need to have an operation in Application Service(AS) to create a Customer BO and each time a customer BO is formed it shopuld be given a customer ny=umber in an auto increment fashion.
For this you can have the following code in your create method of the AS
try {
               StatObj ob = this.getstatObjService().create();
               i++;
               ob.setCustNumber(i);
               this.getstatObjService().update(ob);
          } catch (CAFCreateException e) {
          } catch (CAFUpdateException cue) {
          } catch (CAFPessimisticLockException cple) {
          } catch (CAFOptimisticLockException cole) {
StatObj is my BO and CustNumber is an int in the BO.
Hope it solves your problem.
Hi keerthi,
Is the problem solved.
Regards,
Srinivasan Subbiah
Edited by: Srinivasan Subbiah on Apr 28, 2008 8:55 AM

Auto increment number field

Hello,
I would like to have a number field to be auto increment. Ho can I do that in Oracle must I use some code for it or can I make the field auto increment by itself.
Thanks

user3311314 wrote:
Hello,
I would like to have a number field to be auto increment. Ho can I do that in Oracle must I use some code for it or can I make the field auto increment by itself.
ThanksIt's a long standing gripe of mine. You must use code, and the appropriate solution is a sequence and a trigger, eg
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >create table t(
2      id number not null primary key
3 ,   c1 char(100));
Table created.
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >create sequence seq_t;
Sequence created
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >create or replace trigger bir_t
2 before insert on t
3 for each row
4 begin
5 select seq_t.nextval into :new.id from dual;
6 end;
7 /
Trigger created.
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >insert into t(c1) values ('row 1');
1 row created.
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >commit;
Commit complete.
SASH_CLIENT @ DB10G >select * from t;
        ID C1
         1 row 1I'd much prefer
create table t (
   id number primary key default seq_t.nextval
, c1 char(100));

How to generate auto increment id for sharepoint list item using calculated column?.

Dear all,
List Id will be auto generated in the format “TP_W1_SCO_00001”.(00001 Numbers will keep changing for the documents).
FOR EX:-
first listem ID :TP_W1_SCO_00001
sECOND listem ID :TP_W1_SCO_00002
Please tell me how to do it by using calculated column.
Regards
swapna
SWAPNA

In this solution you have to make two additional columns and one workflow.
step 1 :
create column ‘pID’ on the list of the type number.
Step 2:
Create on the list with SharePoint Designer a listworkflow
Set in the start option: ‘Start workflow automatically when an item is create’
In the workflow you set de column 'pID' with the value from 'ID' ( standard column)
Use for this the option: ‘Set field in current item’.
You need that because you can't use the column 'ID' in the formula in an calculated column
Step 3:
create column ‘IssueID’ on the list of the type calculated column.
Use the formula:
=""&"TP_W1_SCO_"&[pID]
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Auto increment number with leading zeros

hello,
i have data column (serial number) that auto generate from script component, i'm using counter +1 and it successful store the number to my db. but the problem is there any idea to store the number to 00001 rather that 1.
im using this method in my script component
dim counter as integer = 0
counter =counter + 1
row.NoSerial = counter
TQ

Why should you send it through the file? WHy not simply create a calculated column based on identity field or sequence based field (if 2012 version and above) in the destination table and ignore it from the file altogether. ANyways its going to be
a sequential auotogenerated value isnt it?
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/custom-auto-generated-sequences-with-sql-server
If you want to bring it as 00001 etc you need to make it as varchar and use derived column expressions in SSIS as source is text file.
I would prefer doing this in sqlserver if its just a sequential number and has no direct relationship to the incoming file data fields.
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Using one user account table across multiple databases but account used as a foreign key

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Using Get-ADGroup Member recursively across multiple domains in a Forest

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How can I use a mySQL database schema with numeric auto increment primary key instead of GUID?

Hello!
I'm using the TestStand "MySQL Insert (NI)" database schema with GUID as primary key. So everything works fine.
But I prever using numeric values as primary key, because the database is in conjunction with another database which uses numeric values as primary key.
Is this possible?
Has anyone an idea how I can modify the "Generic Recordset (NI)" for use with MySQL?
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~
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ID    INT PRIMARY KEY,
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Auto-increment workflow reset

I have Sharepoint 2013, but created a Workflow in Sharepoint designer with Sharepont 2010 Workflow to assign an auto-increment column to a list. I have tested the list and the auto-incrementing is working great, however now I want to actively use the list
in the 'real' working capacity, but when I've deleted the previously entered test items the auto-increment column proceeds to increase. How can I restart/reset the number back to where it should start? Is it possible? Or do I need to delete my list and start
all over again from scratch both list and workflow?

Hi Tam,
How did you set the workflow to assign an auto-increment column to a list?
If the workflow is different, then there should be different solutions.
If you are using another list to store the numbers for the auto-increment column, then you can modify the columns in that list to be the value that you want to start with.
Here is a link about using another list to recalculate the next number with workflow:
http://gihanmaduranga.blogspot.jp/2012/09/create-auto-increment-number-column-in.html
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If you are using a different solution, could you please provide the detail steps of how you set the auto-increment column?
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