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Can somebody please explain autonumber to me?

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I ran into this exact same issue I am experiencing now about 2 months ago and it literally makes no sense.  I have an ID field in my two entities that are type autonumber (my PK's).  

 

When I am using my app I previously had an edit form for each entity and hid the ID field and like magic, the PK field would automatically create a unique ID using a seed...... but now.... because I had to redo my fields, I am back to the exact same predicament I was in 2 months ago where autonumber is just failing to work.

 

Microsofts documentation literally make it sound like whenever a new row is added then this column will be filled out and incremented by one, which is exactly what was happening for the past few weeks, but now it is just submitting nothing.  Please help!! I solved this two months ago by literally just mass submitting rows until it started working consistantly.  It has never made sense to me.

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  • v-yutliu-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Black_Magic100 ,

    Is your data source common data service?

    If so, autonumber is a read-only column in PowerApps.

    You could not edit it in PowerApps.

    It will automatically fill in value when a record is submitted.

    You could see it as an unique identifier.

    You could set the autonumber's format in CDS.5163_LI.jpg

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Thanks for posting in the community @Black_Magic100 - can you review the above reply and update the thread if it was helpful? 

     

    Thank you,

     

    @Anonymous 

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