I have a little query of generting unique id for creating node , Is there is any way to generate random no ...

I have to genarate a random no for FieldUniqueId attribute in the <FieldToSupport> each time when I create a new node <FieldToSupport>..

I tried it by using Session.SessionID but the no string genarated for example 'hzskur45zxzh4jiwq5lsp3j3' this is same during for the logged user .... also i have to generate random no string in the format like '15b85c2b-83ca-44ec-8741-22a4dc64f64d' ..

 following is the strucuture of XML file

<FieldsToSupport>

<FieldToSupport>
          <Caption>Blank</Caption>
          <Url>Blank</Url>
          <Label>NewField1</Label>
          <HtmlName />
          <HtmlId />
          <FieldUniqueId>15b85c2b-83ca-44ec-8741-22a4dc64f64d</FieldUniqueId>
          <LinkHref>http://careers.msn.com/</LinkHref>
          <InnerHTML>Careers &amp;amp; Jobs</InnerHTML>
          <OuterHTML>&lt;A href="http://careers.msn.com"&gt;Careers &amp;amp; Jobs&lt;/A&gt;</OuterHTML>
          <PopupHTML />
          <FieldSupportItems />
        </FieldToSupport>

<FieldToSupport>
......
</FieldToSupport>

<FieldToSupport>
......
</FieldToSupport>

</FieldsToSupport>

There is an XPATH function called generateId() which will generate a random ID for any node. I however doubt it will be in the format you require.

If you need are using .Net then obviously Guid.NewGuid() would be the way to go.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Simple ASP

Function createGuid()
  Set TypeLib = Server.CreateObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib")
  tg = TypeLib.Guid
  createGuid = left(tg, len(tg)-2)
  Set TypeLib = Nothing
End Function