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How do I create a unique ID for each asset type? A GIS staff from contract emailed me this "All GIS is in and I have set up the work item linking for those layers that had a unique ID field. I would recommend that you create a unique ID for each asset typ

AlexP_

How do I create a unique ID for each asset type? A GIS staff from contract emailed me this "All GIS is in and I have set up the work item linking for those layers that had a unique ID field. I would recommend that you create a unique ID for each asset type so that you can track work to all (needed) assets." I can't find information. I am not sure if this is the right group. Please assist me in this matter. Thank you

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PanGIS

Hi Alexis,

Not really sure if I understood your question, sorry if my answer has nothing to do with it.

Reading Unique ID makes me thing about Global ID:

Have a look at it:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//003n0000001m000000

(Global Identifiers paragraph)

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/add-global-ids.htm

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PanGIS

Hi Alexis,

Not really sure if I understood your question, sorry if my answer has nothing to do with it.

Reading Unique ID makes me thing about Global ID:

Have a look at it:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//003n0000001m000000

(Global Identifiers paragraph)

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/add-global-ids.htm

AlexP_

They told me that just want to make sure that the field for “Name” uses unique identifiers, that way each asset item has it’s own ID. Does that make sense?

Greg_Mattis

Hi Alexis,

I would recommend looking into the Attribute Assistant for ArcGIS Desktop. This will enable you to develop a rule that you create a unique identifier field and every time you add an item it add 1 or whatever increment you want to apply to the unique identifier. Here at my City, we use it for our Addressing and ever address has a Site Address ID which is a unique value like SID-(insert sequence number here). They have excellent documentation here.

As a note, this functionality will be known as attribute rules in ArcGIS Pro. They mentioned that at the UC this functionality should be coming out soon and would be platform wide, not just in ArcMap.

PanGIS

Great advice Greg.

I need to have a look ad this add-in and I am sure is going to be of a great help for my future tasks.

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