Filemaker equivalent to SQLServer NewID()...???

[angelleye]

I need to create unique identifers that follow the following format:

A unique identifer for a particular call. If the same InvocationID is passed in after it has been passed in once on a call that succeeded for a particular application and user, then an error will be returned. The identifier can only contain digits from 0-9 and letters from A-F. The identifier must be 32 characters long. For example, 1FB02B2-9D27-3acb-ABA2-9D539C374228.

In SQL Server I can simply run SELECT newid() and it'll return an ID in that exact format. Is there something similar I can do in FM to create this for a record?

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Wim Decorte]

Do a google on "VBScript+GUID", I'm sure you'll find some hits on routines that will generate something like this. If you don't want to use VBscript then If you can find the algorithm you can recreate it using FM calcs perhaps