# Help Needed: Generating Unique Client and Employee IDs with Updated Glide Features

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-needed-generating-unique-client-and-employee-ids-with-updated-glide-features/86215>\
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**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-needed-generating-unique-client-and-employee-ids-with-updated-glide-features/86215 "2026-01-31T19:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![TMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@TMC](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TMC)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-needed-generating-unique-client-and-employee-ids-with-updated-glide-features/86215/1 "2026-01-31T19:14:24Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been struggling since Thursday to set up automatic Client and Employee ID generation in Glide. I’ve tried several suggestions from older community posts and tutorials, but a lot of the info is now outdated due to recent updates in Glide’s features.

Here’s what I need:

- When a client request is submitted, I want an ID like BND-CL-1001, BND-CL-1002, etc.
- When an employee application is submitted, I want an ID like BND-EL-1001, BND-EL-1002, etc.
- Ideally, these IDs should generate automatically when a form is submitted, with the number incrementing by 1 each time.

If anyone could walk me through the current, best-practice way to do this in the latest version of Glide (step by step), I’d really appreciate it. I’m feeling stuck and would love some guidance.

Thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-needed-generating-unique-client-and-employee-ids-with-updated-glide-features/86215/2 "2026-02-01T00:46:00Z")

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> [@How do I create an auto-incrementing row number with Glide Tables?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-an-auto-incrementing-row-number-with-glide-tables/39572):
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> This is a question that comes up a lot, so creating this topic to use as a reference. Typically, there are two distinct use cases when it comes to auto-incrementing row numbers. Use Case 1: – We need to generate a Part Number, or an Order Number, or an Employee ID. Once the number is generated, it should never change, even if rows are deleted. – The general approach for this use case is to maintain a static counter, use it to craft a suitably formatted ID, and increment it by one every time…

Please let us know if you have any further questions.