How to create an unique ID ? (Data source: SharePoint List)

[julia123]

Hello,

I need to create unique IDs in Power apps in this format "Year-<incremental number>" for each request created in my form. The data source of my form is a SharePoint list. I want this ID to appear in the SharePoint List and also, when viewing the request that was submitted in this Power Apps form.

I'm using this formula in default property, and it's working. BUT when I click in the "view" mode, the ID gets different (increases 1 number)

That's the formula used: 

Concatenate(Year(Today()), "-", Text(CountRows(Filter('SharePoint List', Year(Created)=Year(Today())))+1))

For example, If I create one request in my form, the ID is 2023-1. If I check this created request in "view" mode, I see it as "2023-2".

How can I fix it?

Thank you very much.

[mmollet]

Sharepoint had a unique column for every item in ID as well. This is what I always use for this type of thing.

Year(Now()) & "-" & Text(ItemsIDHere,"0000#")

Not sure if this is an option for you or not.

[julia123]

Hi, 

What should I add in ItemsIDHere? I want that Power apps create the IDs automatically.

Ex: 2023- 1

2023-2

2023-3

And so on 🙂

Thanks,

[mmollet]

You would add the items ID from sharepoint. Depending on where you are at and what you are doing the way to get this ID may be different. 

Does the item already exist in SP or are you creating it as a new row as you do this?

[julia123]

It's a app where you submit a request in a Power Apps form. 

Once you have submitted it, there's a page in the app where you can view your request (so, in view mode).

For each and every request created, I need to add a different ID, an identifier. And it should look like this: "2023-1" for the first request creates. "2023-2" for the second one, etc.

With this formula, in default property, I was able to make it happen:

Concatenate(Year(Today()), "-", Text(CountRows(Filter('SharePoint List', Year(Created)=Year(Today())))+1))

My problem is that, when checking the created request, in View mode, the ID appears differently. 

So, if I create the first request, I can see when creating it, that's the "2023-1". But, after saving/submitting it, in View mode, I see the ID as "2023-2", and not "2023-1". "2023-1" should be the correct, as this was the first request I`ve created.

Please, let me know if I was not clear, and thank you very much for your replies !!

[mmollet]

So I generally use Patch statements instead of forms but I will explain what I would do and maybe you can translate it into your solution and make it work there as well. Generally I use a formula like:

ClearCollect(lastPatchedItem, Patch(SPListName, Defaults(SPListName)))

What this does is it created a blank item with all the defaults in the columns (if there are any) and then saves that row to a collection called lastPatchedItem. Then I can execute another patch statment directly after it but this time I have the row already created so I just want to edit it. Good thing I have the ID of the row I want to edit in SP stored in the item in the collection I made. The code for this would look something like: 

Patch(SPListName, ID = First(lastPatchedItem).ID, {FirstName: textinput1.text, LastName: textinput2.text, uniqueID: Year(Now() & "-" & Text(First(lastPatchedItem).ID,"0000#"})

What this does is it finds the row we just made in the first patch statement, sends the actual data we want to store (similar to what your form is doing) but this time it has access to the unique ID and you can format it to be whatever you want at that point. In this case say it is SP ID 28. The value in uniqueID column for that new row would be:

2023-00028

Again I hope this helps. I have used forms as a quick setup then just used patch statement like listed above to send to SP rather than using submit form but this depends on how complex your data is in SP. I keep all my data to strings, integers/floats, or dates to avoid having comples data that is hard to patch.