Hi Brendan,
is it possible to create an automatic auto increasing unique patient ID that contains letters and numbers?
for example something like
ABC0000001, ABC0000002, etc
furthermore, can this be used as a unique identifier for a particular record?
Hi gzamba,
There’s an auto-increment feature for Number fields, but not for Text fields.
It’s not used as a unique identifier. The only unique identifier is the internal identifier that Tap Forms generates, which is a globally unique random series of letters and numbers separated by dashes. I had to do it that way to support iCloud syncing so there would be no collisions in the primary keys.
Thanks,
Brendan
Is it possible to join two fields?
I could have a text field with the prefix that I want (i.e. ABC) and a numeric auto-increment field (i.e. 000001 etc) and join them together after the creation of each record to provide the combined text-number serial that I need…
Could this be done?
Not at the moment, but I’m exploring ways that I can offer this ability. Ultimately I’d like to be able to add a concatenate function to the Calculation field. At the moment the calculation field can only perform mathematical operations and return a Number, not a String.
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