For every user in my user-profile table i want the user to be associated with a “short” 6-8 character unique code ( read as affiliate ID ) which can be used by new users as referral. a. I initially thought of using the unique username the user registers with to be used for this purpose but i do giv…

A few different approaches discussed here: [image] Auto Numbering Ask for Help How to setting auto numbering that appear with a new order submit by a form button? Example, i have 3 form submitted. i need the first submitted form showing: 0001 - “form result; …” 0002 - …

[image] Darren_Murphy: A few different approaches discussed here: :exploding_head:

@Darren_Murphy @ThinhDinh Kind of did a bit of reading and came up with this ={"Code";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="","",DEC2HEX(RANDBETWEEN(0, 9999999), 6)))} Now this generates a 6 digit code BUT Its giving same value for all rows - which is bizzare ! And every refresh of the sheet or deletion or ad…

For your use case I would steer clear of a spreadsheet solution and instead use the Glide computed columns approach that I offered in that other thread. The problem with the spreadsheet solution is that values will change if a row is ever deleted. With my approach, the values are locked in once the…

[image] Darren_Murphy: With my approach, the values are locked in once they are set. The only downside is that you have to “kick start” it by setting the first value manually. @Darren_Murphy Yes i get that - i can probably use something like a serial number and then use the forumula you have …

@Darren_Murphy You meant this one ? [image] Auto Numbering Ask for Help Here is how I would do it: [Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 5.43.18 PM] “Padding” is just a simple ITE… [Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 5.43.32 PM] So putting all that together, 4 columns required: Roll…

Sorry, I was on my mobile just now, so a bit fiddly to provide a direct link. This is the approach I’m referring to: [image] Auto Numbering Ask for Help Here is how I would do it: [Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 5.43.18 PM] “Padding” is just a simple ITE… [Screen Shot 20…

A bit of playing with the formating ( in spreadsheet ) and came up with this UniqueID Its def not random and but its definitely Unique. Might not be the solution that i wanted or will use. But something easy to achieve for testing purpose on the sandbox. [Screenshot 2021-05-29 at 5.40.09 PM] I t…

All that i have done is … Sheets > Select Date Column > Format > More formats > More date and time formats [Screenshot 2021-05-29 at 5.58.55 PM] Can reduce it to only YYYYHHMMSS to make it 10char but that would make it too obvious. So played around with jumbling the order of the Y M D H M S to ge…

I think i am spending way too much time on this thing today which i could have spent in a better way :wink: [Screenshot 2021-05-29 at 6.24.41 PM] -Shiv

Generating shorter unique ID for every user

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@Darren_Murphy You meant this one ?

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Generating shorter unique ID for every user

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