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Looking for best practice to achieve below functionality

  • March 27, 2020
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How we can generate a 5 digit auto incremented sequence for a field in a particular table.
For Example:
Row 1 : 00001
Row 2 : 00002

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Rajeev Shukla
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MarkShnierYou
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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • March 27, 2020
The best practice is to use the [Record ID#] field and make a formula from it.

Try this as a formula text field.

PadLeft(ToText([Record ID#]), 5, "0")

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