Unique ID like 2019-01 with condition don't count other line items

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I have a flow that creates a unique ID with the year 'yyyy' format, like 2019-01.

As last step, I entered the condition, that a column of my list has to contain a specific word.

The problem is that it then looks like this. After 2019-34 comes 2019-38. What I would like to have, is that after 2019-34 comes 2019-35.

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Dricc 179 on at

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My flow looks like this. I don't know if it helps.

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ErichH 322 on at

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Are you sorting the data in the “get items” step by “ID”?

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Why is the “increment variable” step outside of the loop “apply to each”? What is inside of the loop?

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Thank you @ErichH !
Please find my flow below. Does it help?

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ErichH 322 on at

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you have to

> move the "increment variable" step into the "apply to each" loop as you want to have unique numbers.

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suggest to add in "Get items" in

> "order by" the dynamic variable ID .

> "filter by" the text generated%20number ne ''

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Dricc 179 on at

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Thanks a lot @ErichH !
just one question: what does this do and what is the dynamic variable exactly:
"order by" the dynamic variable ID

Also, the flow runs succesfully, but doesn't do what I want:

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @Dricc, forgive me for stepping into your conversation with @ErichH but I have an alternative method in the images below which I hope you will find is a solution. The main thing is that whenever I deal with incrementing values I always save the inext value to be used, i.e the 35 you mentioned in yur first post, in a separate SharePoint list which only has that 1 item. The flow gets that number, updates the new item with it then then adds 1 to it at the end of the flow ready for the next item that meets the Condition.

In my example the Condition must be that Current is equal to Yes.

Image 5: as the number has been used in a string variable we need to convert it back to an integer ready to be saved to the increment list.

If the Condition evaluates to No then the number is not increased by 1, You can see this in the last image.

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1-Trigger - get item2-Compose Year Init variable3-Get increment value to be used4-Condition and update item5-Convert to integer6-add 1 to the increment value7-Next increment value to be used if condition is yes8-Current list with generated values

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Dricc 179 on at

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Thank you @RobElliott !
That looks pretty good exept for the last part where the sister list is updated. I get following error:

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The error message says the item doesn't exist. You must already have an item in that list.

Rob
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Dricc 179 on at

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@RobElliott, I do have an item in my list:

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Could you post of screenshot of the Update item action that failed so we can what the issue might be in it.

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