Automatically increases by one, when a new asset or rule is added.
When the Counter field type is added, the next asset to be added will automatically be assigned the initial value specified in the Initial Value field. If an asset is deleted, you cannot reuse that counter value.
- Counter Prefix: Enter an alpha-numeric value to be added as a prefix to the counter.
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Counter Initial Value: The initial value will be the value of
the counter for the first added asset after the counter field type is defined. It
must be greater than the number of existing assets.
- If assets already exists and no initial value is defined, it will automatically start with [value of the number of existing assets] + 1.
- When no assets exist, the counter will be set to 1 when an asset is added. Subsequent assets are then assigned the greatest counter value plus one. In this way, it is possible to uniquely identify assets, without having to use, for example, the GUID.