Folks, Some of you may notice at some point that you can have nice granularity of security settings in WSS/Portal on custom lists. If you look you'll see that you can you allow people to add items but not delete, not see other's people's postings,...

I've been asked multiple times on how to get a guaranteed unique value for a field in a form. It normally comes up in the context of a tracking id, or a request id - something that you know will be unique and will be a way to recall that entry at some...