Is it possible to have unique numbers/letters in one row such that it doesnt reappear in other rows?
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Hello! On the screenshot I highlighted where the row unique ID is located. This record will always be unique, because the number increases +1 even when you delete records.
Hi,
I see that but I want to stop recurring serial numbers in different rows and its different to what you have said.
Would you mind elaborating a bit more on what you want to do, it’s a bit unclear? Do you want to have some sort of unique constraint/validation, where you can can’t create a row with a certain value if it already exists?
Yes thats pretty much what im going for, if there already exists a cell with ABC there cant be any rows in that column with that same value.
That’s currently not possible with Baserow. It’s called a unique constraint and we’re not going to implement that anytime soon. If we want to implement this feature with the right UX, it’s going to be a lot of work to build it and we’re currently focusing on other features.
Acknowledged. I’m new around here and happily building away on top of several tables in a database now. It sounds like handling field uniqueness is the province of the application in Baserow world, so I’ll note that and handle as needed. I’m looking for any general advice on how to approach wanting to use fields other than the id for row lookups. A couple of reasons that first come to mind:
- It is common in publishing to use “slug” fields as a primary lookup key even if it isn’t the primary key on the table, with the assumption the field is constrained to be unique. You may be familiar that Django’s generic views can fetch objects by slug only. A corollary feature to this is allowing any unique field to be used in row lookups…
- Having the row ID in the URL may not be desirable for several reasons for some sites
Has anyone dealt with maintaining their own unique constraint for Baserow fields?
About a year ago, there was a merge request to implement a unique constraint in Baserow. This one was closed because of the reason I explained above, but maybe it could somehow be of help to you. You can find the changes here: [Unique Columns] add support for unique columns (!272) · Merge requests · Bram Wiepjes / baserow · GitLab.
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