In a Button Script, I am going to duplicate an entity, and also duplicate the entities in one of its collections (a partial “deep clone”). As suggested in the API examples , it would be useful to pre-set the fibery/id's of some of these clones I’m going to create, to simplify adding them to the new …

You can use this code now: const utils = context.getService('utils'); console.log(utils.uuid());

[image] Matt_Blais: So, is there not a strict requirement that the fibery/id field contains a “real” UUID (mac address and timestamp)? As far as I know, any unique identifier of the correct format works, but I’ll double-check. [image] Matt_Blais: it can be a lot more efficient to lump al…

As far as I know there is no utility method to generated uuid for now. It would be nice to have such method, will propose that to maintainer. Meanwhile, you may try the following snippet function uuidv4() { return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function (c) { va…

Thanks @Viktar_Zhuk – I believe it requires UUID v1.

You must not. We are using uuid v4 all over the place.

I’ve double checked server side source code it accepts any UUID whether it v1 or v4. I can guarantee that v4 will be supported in long term cause we use this version in majority cases. In any case, there is no way to generate UUID value beforehand using our platform. So you may stick to own implemen…

Hello all - I don’t know script, but would like to have a column in my Database which automatically generates a UUID for each Row (aka Entity). Can anyone explain how to set this up in Fibery so a UUID would be created for each entity and added to a “UUID” titled column? Much appreciated :). […

See here: [image] What is the best way to get the ID of drop down options? Get Help I guess you’ve probably have thought of it, but you could make text field (called UUID) and define a scheduled automation to get the ID. Then just ‘Run now’ to populate all of them at once…

[image] Maximilian_Breckbill: would like to have a column in my Database which automatically generates a UUID for each Row (aka Entity) The entity Id is already already what you describe. Do you need another Id field for each entity? Why would you need two unique Ids?

Thanks @Matt_Blais Indeed, the public id for an entity is unique (within a database) so unless you need the UUID (which is used in the backend, for APIs/scripting etc.) it should suffice.

How to create UUIDs for new entities?

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Chr1sG May 24, 2022, 12:26pm 13

See here:

You could run the automation when an entity is created if that was preferable.

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How to create UUIDs for new entities?

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