Hi everyone,

I have a situatuon where some home grown workflow needs to create CI's.

I'm doing this by pushing fields directly to the AST:* form corresponding
to the Class we want to create the CI in, and up to that point it works
flawlwssly.

However, I need to pull the 'InstanceId' of the CI I just created back into
the form where the workflow fired the push fields (so I can set up
relationships, etc).

Doing this reliably has become more of a headache than I'd imagined. There
are almost no uniqueness restraints in cmdb (sort of a corollary to Igor's
thread about unique indexes).

So there's almost nothing I can search by other than 'InstanceId', that's
guaranteed to get 1 or 0 results.
so here's my question. What if I generate my own GUID and push it into
'InstanceId' on the AST:* form?

Does anyone know of this will break something in asset or cmdb? On the
surface, this seems like a legitimate thing to do, but just wondering if
anyone has been down this road before?

-Andy

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