About the Component

UUID Generator - RFC 4122 Version 4

UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifier), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier), according to RFC 4122, are identifiers with a certain uniqueness guarantee. 

Systems working with compliant UUIDs may choose not to accept randomly generated ones, and many open source validators will actually check for a valid structure.

An UUID must have this format:

xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Mxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

Where the M and N positions may only have certain values. At this time, the only valid values for M are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, so randomly generating that position would make most results unacceptable. 

Component usage

This component you can use in Client Actions or Screen Actions in Reactive applications.

To use the component, just call the UUIDv4 action and use the return to set your variable or database field. A brief example follows:

Example of an assign consuming the generated UUID value: