Creating AutoGenerating Field

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The term you’re looking for is “auto-increment”

There are several threads here explaining it, like this one

How to add a Autoincrement field for Account and Contacts

Hi there, To do this, don’t add the field via Studio, add a new file in custom/Extension/modules/yourmodule/Ext/Vardefs e.g. autoincrement.php with the following : <?php $dictionary['YOUR_MODULE']['fields']['NAME_OF_AUTO_INC_FIELD'] = array( 'name' => 'NAME_OF_AUTO_INC_FIELD', 'vname' => 'LBL_LABEL_OF_AUTO_INC_FIELD', 'type' => 'int', 'readonly' => true, 'len' => 11, 'auto_increment' => true, 'disable_num_f…