====== Generate UUIDs in ArcGIS Pro ======

The corporate GIS vehicle is ESRI's ArcGIS Pro. When digitizing new features which are to be used in [[http://gplates.org|GPlates]], each feature is required to have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier|UUID-based]] ''FEATURE_ID'' in the form of ''GPlates-7344d973-6ff1-47f7-93b9-bdb9cf7197ee''. In ArcGIS Pro, this can be done easily using the [[https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000011677|field calculator]]. The following definition (based on ESRI's website) can be plonked into the Code Block part of the Field Calculator:

<code Python>
def ID():
  import uuid
  return 'GPlates-' + str(uuid.uuid4())
</code>

while in the field assignment (''FEATURE_ID ='') one then simply uses the above definition, assigning ''FIELD_ID = ID()'' 

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