importing records to have unique IDs

[richshone]

Any ideas how to import records into a file with a unique ID field so they all get assigned their own unique IDs upon imoport. So far, I haven't been able to do this. Thanks...

[Chuck]

When records get imported, the newly imported records are the found set. If you have a field for the record id, you can loop through the found set and use the Set Field script step to assign the unique ID to each record that has been imported.

Chuck

[LiveOak]

If you make your auto-entered serial number a composite of items such as Status(current date), Status(Current Time), and Status(Current Record ID), you can set the import to update (checkbox) and be assured that a duplicate number will not be assigned. -bd