How to generate uuid? any uuid()?

[Kepler_Liu]

How to generate uuid? any uuid()?

[Federico_Stefanato]

Hi @Kepler_Liu,
unfortunately there is no UUID formula at this stage.

I don’t know what is your use case, but maybe this could be relevant:

PSA: Link to recently created rows by UID, not RowID()

Requirement: with a button create a row and bring it up into focus (e.g. as a modal) Problem: to bring out a row into focus, you need its RowID() so that you could construct its URL like: OpenWindow(Format("#_tu9Wb/r{1}&modal=true", CreatedRow.RowID()) However, RowID() at this point may still be blank because the row is not yet stored to the server. And it will always stay blank if the doc is used in Play mode. Solution: instead of RowID() use “true” 10-alphadigit unique row ID (UID) that is…

[Kepler_Liu]

In Table, use Split(thisRow + "", "/").Last() to get the uuid of that row.
But in formular, can I generate the uuid by compositing some functions?

[Federico_Stefanato]

@Kepler_Liu,
as said, outside of that context, at this moment no programmatic generation of UUID is available.

If you can share your specific use case, maybe there are some useful workarounds.

[Kepler_Liu]

I want to send http request to my server, which the params of the url supports ?id=uuid.
While Coda is not supporting http request, I use Image(url) as http request pack.

I would like to turn my doc into dashboard. I can trigger workflow of my backend server from the button.

[Paul_Danyliuk]

Saw myself mentioned here. I remember I solved something similar here:

GUIDs automatically added to new rows

Hey Matthew, here’s a pseudo-UUID implementation that’s based not on Random but on Coda row UID: It takes some liberties with reducing entropy (e.g. lowercasing UID characters and leaving out non-base36 characters), but I guess it should be random enough.