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Bronze Contributor

May 03, 2017

Auto Increment Column with Document Sets - is this even possible?

Is there any viable out of the box way to create an auto increment column with document sets? I thought I could use the ID, but I wasn aware that the documents within document sets take up from the ...

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Heiko Watz

Iron Contributor

May 15, 2017

For this I allways use a small SharePoint Designer Workflow with a separate 'Number List'

http://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/2010/06/03/sharepoint-how-to-create-an-auto-incrementing-number-field-for-use-in-a-custom-id-part-1-aspx/

http://geekswithblogs.net/ThorvaldBoe/archive/2015/01/14/161131.aspx