Introduction
A quick intro for an exciting component of ours -Ultimate Forms: Item ID, a comprehensive solution for generating sophisticated item ID's for SharePoint list items.
If you work at a law firm, a bank, an insurance company or any other place that needs to store valuable documents (or other data) in the right order, label or category and reuse them again for reference, meeting, important calculation, signature check or just as a quick reminder for yourself on the topic, you will definitely find our component -Ultimate Forms: Item ID - not just useful but a life saver!
Just think for a moment what you usually do when you work on a document. To create ID number you need to look for and find the related previous documents, determine to what category the document belongs (and what if the specific document you are working on belongs to a brand new category?), out of all the information in and about the document you need to create a unique ID. The point is that each step you need to browse the existing data in your library or list and improvise each time something doesn’t fit. I am sure you do not need us to tell you how tedious this can be! That why you need Infowise Ultimate Forms: Item ID.
Ultimate Forms: Item ID is the answer we developed based on the feedback and needs of our customers and it is designed to simplify the ID assignment process. Ultimate Forms: Item ID fits naturally into the work environment and enables much more options and possibilities your users are bound to find helpful.
What can it do?
So what can you do with Ultimate Forms: Item ID?
- Assign ID's to documents or list item based on rules and conditions. Define multiple rules and the most suitable will be applied automatically.
- Any column value, function or character can be used as a part of the ID pattern.
- Any text column can be used to store the ID's.
- Can only assign an ID after the manager's approval? Apply patterns according to any condition you choose.
- Prevent editing of the ID column
- ID rules are saved as part of list template, so you can create new lists from saved list templates with the ID setting already baked in.
- Works in both SharePoint document libraries and lists.
- Works in all current SharePoint versions, in the cloud and on premises.
Whenever you need to assign a unique ID according to your own methodology, Ultimate Forms: Item ID is the right tool for the job!
