How the GUID s are created in the system

[Former Member]

HI

I have a doubt regarding the GUID numbers created by the system

I am working EBP applicaton which is part of SRM. When we create the Shoping basket with several items , the Shopping basket will have a Header GUID and items will have ITEM GUIDs and also the requestor, vendor, Goods recipent and cost assignmetnt everything have GUIDs associated with them

How this GUID s are created.I mean is there any program which creates them??

Is there any format for this GUID. I mean by seeing the GUID of Shopping basket header can we tell something about the shopping basket.??

What exactly the GUID conveys??

[pvanhoove]

Hello,

Guids are just used as unique identifier, they have no signification, only property is to be unique. They are generated by function GUID_CREATE. The same guid can be displayed and used in different format (RAW16, CHAR32, CHAR22). You can convert them with a "move" statement or function GUID_CONVERT.

Rgds,

Pierre