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

[Ivan Unger]

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 "global" ID set of the root folder. 

Now that I've created a few test sets with documents my first three document sets have these IDs 4, 25, 776 😛

I would have been OK with a few gaps due to deletion, but these jumps are not viable.

[#2]

I can only think on doing by means of a Workflow / something that updates your Increment column based on previous data (document sets) in the library

[#3]

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-...

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

[#4]

Hi,

Did you find any solution for Document Set IDs? I have the same problem and I couldn't find any 'no code' solution...

[#5]

Had a consultant build a SharePoint workflow. Therefore wasn’t a no-code solution.

[#6]

Thank you. I'll try to figure out a solution

[#7]

These days, I would advise using Power Automate to create a flow that does this. This will be a no-code/low-code solution that doesn't necessarily require a developer or consultant in the middle.

[#8]

@SabbeRubbish I just stumbled to your comment 🙂 After more than a Year it is still not possible to create a new Document Set from PowerApps. You can add documents to existing document set and also edit and save an existing document set, but not create a new one 😞 The AutoId number would have come handy here.

[#9]

It is possible with the help of Power Automate.