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I am developing a discussion board in sharepoint but in that I require to have a custom ID field for each sharepoint list item and item ID should be like appended with current year "2012-1","2012-2" etc...

let me add that ... if the year changes then I would need to start the IDs from 1 for that year like if 2013 comes then the IDs will be like 2013-1,2013-2 etc.

Please share your suggestions

Thanks Rhm

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Someone asked this elsewhere and the answer was to create simple workflow. Probably event receiver would work too, if you're more familiar with them.

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ItemEventReceiver is the way to go I think. Hereby the link to an example on how to do it: http://dlairman.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/autonumbering-event-handler/

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The ID cannot be changed. You can however create a calculated column that uses the ID in it's value.

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ok, please tell me how to get current Year and concatenate to custom ID column – RHM Mar 26 '12 at 8:07
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You cannot use ID in calculated column. You can try this and see what happens: =YEAR(Created)&"-"&ID Hint: ID isn't populated when you create the item, only after you add it, or if you modify the calculated column. – Jussi Palo Mar 26 '12 at 8:11
Whoa, didn't even know that! (after 6 yrs of working with sharepoint, it still has secrets :-D). So that would mean you'd need to create something like an ItemEventReceiver to get my proposed behavior.... – Colin Mar 26 '12 at 18:14

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