ID Field

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Alan Gorman

Is there any way to add a field that automatically generates an ID number starting at 1 and incrementing each time. This would be useful in apps for tracking issues / bugs / defects etc.

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  • Jana Antošová

    Anybody tried it ?

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  • Stephan Vierkant

    No, I didn't. I'm writing my own script, using the Podio ID from the API. I only want a unique field as key field, so I can use Excel to do updates on many rows and import it again 

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  • Sébastien Dubois

    +1

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  • Kylie Jensen

    +1 

    I need auto job numbers and invoice numbers

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  • Miriam Lee

    +1

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  • Nunzio Gambale

    Hi Folks

     

    I am trying to implement Norberts method...however i can't seem to find where to upload the api key?

    In the help, you suggest:

    1. Upload generateid.php on the server that you specified in the 1st step

    and the example you provide is:

    1. I uploaded file to 56.263.65.62/Generateid/generateid.php

    This doesn't seem to work for my domain? (i'm using names not numbers? not sure if that matters?)

    If you have any suggestions, i'd really appreciate it.

    thnx for making this work...it really is something Podio should do out of the box...but if this works i'll be happy!

    ciao

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  • Oriol Martí Carreras

    +1

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  • Craig Hollis

    @Nunzio you don't need to upload a key, rather you need to obtain a key from Podio and enter it in the config.php file Norbert provided. You'll need to do a few things to setup the config.php file correctly:

    APP_ID and APP_TOKEN are obtained from the application you want to use the script with, go to the application in Podio and click the wrench/settings button then Developer, the top two text boxes are what you need.

    CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET are obtained from the Account Settings > API Keys section, generate a new API key and put the results in the config.php file.

    Providing you have the rest of the config.php file setup correctly, the last part you need to carry out is to add the hook to the application. This is done in the same place as the APP_ID is obtained from, click the Add Hook button then enter the URL to the generateid.php script on your server and set the type to item.create

    Hope that helps :)

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  • Nunzio Gambale

    Thnx Craig. I'm a php newb I'm afraid. Your post makes heaps of sense and I'll give it a crack tomorrow. Ciao

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  • Timothy Thornton

    +1

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  • Daniel Hadinata

    +1

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  • Josh Canillas

    THIS

    ^ This

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  • James Ratnarajah

    +1

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  • Sicko van Dijk

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  • Sébastien Couture

    1+

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  • Norbert Bede

    yes agree on new ID field requirement, but until then try our simple tutorial, and download !

    http://www.multimageweb.com/blog/2013/05/15/podio-id-field-hook/

    hope helps others, its free.

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  • Sébastien Couture

    Thanks Norbert,

    This is quite helpful and shows the power of API hooks. I can think of many more uses for this.

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  • Daniel Hadinata

    i don't understand php. do i just upload these files and point the hook to them?

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  • Andrew Matthews

    +1

    Need it!

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  • Ethan Zane Miller

    Much needed! +1

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  • Keller Baum

    +1

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  • Ottar í Hjøllum

    +1

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  • Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

    Hey guys!

    It is out :) See more here: http://blog.podio.com/2013/08/05/uniqueid/

    Thanks for your patience. Hope you like it?

    //Sara - Podio

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  • Thomas Garp

    Fantastic! Thanks a lot :-)

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  • Jeff Buford

    Thank you! 

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  • Mosey Levy

    sweet! makes our lives a little bit easier....

    now on to calendar i assume? 

    : )

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  • Stephan Klaus

    Actually it's nice to have a field now but how can you search for it? At least for my App I would need to search by ID.

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  • Daniel Hadinata

    disappointing that you can't start it from a custom number.

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  • Nunzio Gambale

    great work folks. this will be incredibly useful to me and (i reckon) 70% of your user base! ciao

     

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  • David Jones

    This is great, but is there any way to start from a custom number? I have an app with over 900 items in it already so starting from zero again isn't really possible.

    many thanks, keep up the good work!

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