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Can I show the Id before submitting the form.

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Hi all 

I have a SharePoint List where one of the colomns is an Id. 

In my app I have a form where I fill different fields.

My question is :  when I make a new form , the Id field is empty so is it possible to show or have the Id of the new form before submitting the form?

Thanks for your help. 

 

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    TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

    ID Field is auto generated by sharepoint. so what you would want to do is everytime you load a new form do a first/sort by id/descending on the sp list you will be adding to, then create a variable that is that result +1 and have your form just display that variable. Once you submit the form (don't try to submit id it will autogenerate) the id sharepoint generates will just be the most recent one +1 so they will match. (only time this would be inaccurate is if someone has deleted the most recent item in the sp list.

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    jhat 14 on at

    The Rob Rush SuperUser is correct...

     

    I have used Last Submitted process in the past. Unfortunately it only works when there are no deletions in the list. For example, I had a list and all was well up until someone deleted from the list which through my ID count off by the number of entries deleted: Items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 were entered, but Item 6 was deleted. When you enter Item 7 you will get a PowerApps ID of 6, but SharePoint will show the ID as 7. And that's because the SharePoint Auto generated ID (6) was not reused - in other words there are 7 items entered even though one was deleted. Now this only occurs when the last item submitted is deleted before a new item is submitted. 

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