I have a construction team that requires document numbers for all documents associated with their projects. I'm looking for a way to auto-generate unique document numbers for all documents in a project type? I think I have figured out how to generate unique numbers within a project, but the same doc numbers are repeated in other projects within the same project type.

Thanks,

We were just troubleshooting this on Monday.  You are correct, it is not possible to set a unique identifier for a document in the enterprise (compared to a unique identifier within a project) through the general UI (I am pretty sure it is possible through reports, but that's not really helping in the general user sense).  Sorry Karen, if we figure out a workaround we'll post up.

For those that are interested in unique ID's for single project items:

For some reason the Item Number custom field is not exposed for native applications (tasks not relevant).  So as a trick, try creating a custom calculation field (in Documents for example):

 Admin>Applications>Documents>New Custom Field

1. Title it "Document Number" or whatever your ID number should be. Not required is fine.
2. Set it as a Calculation
3. Standard settings are fine, maybe set zero decimals
   
4. In Step 4, highligh ID and "Add" it to the forumla box and save.

Whenever you add a document to a project it now exposes it's ID in the calculation field.  The first doc you add is 1, second is 2 and so on.  Updating a version of that document retains its original ID number.  This can be displayed in the details screen or the documents tab as a field.

Thanks, Steve. That's exactly what I did to get the doc numbers I have. Hopefully we'll figure out how to make that enough. I appreciate you posting a solution/workaround should one arise.