# Random string/ password generator field **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [June 5, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/random-string-password-generator-field/9669 "2015-06-05T18:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JustinWebb57112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JustinWebb57112](https://forums.knack.com/u/JustinWebb57112)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/random-string-password-generator-field/9669/1 "2015-06-05T18:47:00Z")
It would be very useful for our business if there were a field like 'auto-increment' that generated a random strings of characters for each record entry. This could be used to create unique passwords for specific documents uploaded to the record with the passwords stored in a separate field of the record. ---
**Author:** ![JustinWebb57112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JustinWebb57112](https://forums.knack.com/u/JustinWebb57112)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/random-string-password-generator-field/9669/2 "2016-04-23T00:30:56Z")
Great. This is also going to help me finally be able to categorize dates by months by extracting the first 2 characters from the date field. Great for setting up reports. ---
**Author:** ![Anthonycan43927](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Anthonycan43927](https://forums.knack.com/u/Anthonycan43927)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/random-string-password-generator-field/9669/3 "2015-07-19T09:18:38Z")
Agree. For support queries and all sorts of databases where a unique ID is useful, it would be great if you could set a field so that it is automatically populated with a unique ID and cannot be edited by the user.