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I have a power automate flow which is feeding a record into a CRM entity.

I want to have an incremental autonumber field that adds one each time a record is fed into the CRM entity.

Any ideas how to do this?

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Guido Preite 1,488 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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you can create an autonumber column, it will be automatically set every time a record is created

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/autonumber-fields

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SignInNameNotAvailable 16 on at

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Thanks for the reply but this seems to be if I'm using a power app which I'm not.
I may not have explained what I'm doing fully.
What I am doing is I have a MS Forms front end and the user fills this form in. The form then feeds into a MS Power Automate cloud flow. The cloud flow then feeds into a CRM entity and creates the new record in CRM.
I'm looking to create an autonumber which increments by 1 that goes into a Number field in CRM.
Any ideas how to achieve this in this scenario?
Thanks.

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Guido Preite 1,488 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Can you explain why the autonumber functionality (built-in inside power apps connected to a Dataverse like your "CRM entity") doesn't work for you?

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SignInNameNotAvailable 16 on at

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I'm relatively new to this. where can I see and try the autonumber functionality (built-in inside power apps connected to a Dataverse like your "CRM entity") that you speak of?

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Guido Preite 1,488 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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the documentation link I shared before explain it, in particular the section "Create an autonumber column"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/autonumber-fields#create-an-autonumber-column

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SignInNameNotAvailable 16 on at

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When I go into tables there is no table associated with my Flow it seems, even when I click on more no table for my Flow appears.

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Rahman1005 109 on at

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Hi,
could you please refer below article.
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/create-auto-numbering-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-entities/

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SignInNameNotAvailable 16 on at

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I am using Power Automate and this article is for Power Apps and not Power Automate. I am using Power Automate cloud flow to write to a CRM entity.

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Shawn11 152 on at

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Go to the entity you are using in the crm create an autonumber field as mentioned in this article Autonumber
So next time when a new record is created from power automate an autonumber will be genrated.
Hope this helps

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SignInNameNotAvailable 16 on at

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In the article you attach it shows the CRM entities in appearing in Power Apps but my CRM entities do not appear under Power Apps if you understand what I'm saying.

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