# Create more than one guid per row **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [August 1, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368 "2024-08-01T20:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/1 "2024-08-01T20:52:37Z")
I need 4 different guid on a single row. One will of course be rowid but how to create the others? One solution I suppose could be to use a template column and exchange 1 to A, 2 to B, 3 to C But would they still be unique within the app? And I suppose a bit error prone if the number isn’t found in the guid Or would it be better to just put A, B, C in front of rowid? Or is there a way to create a guid? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/2 "2024-08-01T21:04:21Z")
Have you tried the unique ID option? > **[Unique Identifier | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/values/unique-identifier)** > > Submit a unique ID automatically. ---
**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/3 "2024-08-01T22:10:32Z")
@Jeff_Hager well - these can be used when you do an action. This won’t work for me I have four “objects” on one line. I need to reference between the objects so when I do put the different “objects” in their respectively tables then the references are in place. That’s why I need the extra guid’s ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/4 "2024-08-01T22:40:00Z")
Can you explain the process a little bit? How is each object added to a row? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/5 "2024-08-02T05:59:33Z")
Assuming that you are using a native form to add new rows, what you could do is: - create 4 text columns in the User Profile row to use as temporary storage. - when your Form is opened, insert a Set Column Values step just before and use that to set new unique values in each of the 4 columns - use those values with the form submission (User Profile Values) to populate the columns in the new row that’s being added. If you’re using a Custom Form, then it’s essentially the same, except that you would use the Unique Values in an Add Row step. ---
**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/6 "2024-08-02T06:34:09Z")
@Darren_Murphy I have a JSON object with a varying number of lines On each row (row 1…50) in a table “data-import” I pull the data from the JSON object by use of Query JSON columns. Some data belongs to “object” house, som data belongs to “object” garden, some to the “object” flowers. I will put the data afterwards to three tables by use of call API - house, garden, flowers. But I need to refer the garden to the house, and need to refer the flower to the garden. On each row I only have access the the rowid as GUID which is to be used as the key between the related tables. I would like to get a globally unique key for each row (independent of whether it is found in house, garden, flowers. _So how do I create three guid’s on each row in “data-import” table_ The setup I have today gives me a key (rowid) which is unique within each table The JSON object doesn’t have single unique key for each line-object **Example** { “lines”: [ {“house”: “myHouse”, “garden”: “myGarden”, “myFlower”: “grass”}, {“house”: “yourHouse”, “garden”: “yourGarden”, “yourFlower”: “corn”}’ ] } Makes sense? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-more-than-one-guid-per-row/75368/7 "2024-08-02T08:59:52Z")
Okay, so it’s more complicated than you first described. If I’m understanding correctly, you essentially have a hierarchy where flowers belong to a garden, and a garden belongs to a house, yes? If that’s correct, I think I would take a slightly different approach. Rather than trying to pre-generate the UUIDs I would just use the RowIDs that the Glide API returns. So the flow would be something like this: - Add a House record, and capture the RowID that the API returns - Add a Garden record, and set the HouseID to the value captured at the previous step. Capture the returned Garden RowID record. - Add a Flower record, and set the GardenID to the previously captured Garden RowID value. Would an approach like that work for you?