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AutoNumbering Columns in SharePoint List
Good morning, I have a Sharepoint list used for tracking my documents. I manually number each document, but this has become challenging over the past month. Is there a way to automatically c...
Hello torresH
you can do it with Power Automate Flows. Here is one example: https://www.bruce365.com/2020/03/31/sharepoint-auto-number-generation-solution-using-flow/
Other you can find with internet search machines, search "power automate flow sharepoint autonumber"
Regards, Dave
I just tried it with PA and its a failure. PA cant hold data so it cant know which number it did last. There is people who use lets say a number inside sharepoint and update it every time flow runs, but the issue with that is PA takes 1ms to run and requesting number takes a minute so you give same ID to all documents that is uploaded within a minute or so.