{"id":15668,"date":"2023-12-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/generating-random-ids-with-apps-script\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:35:15","slug":"generating-random-ids-with-apps-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/generating-random-ids-with-apps-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating Random IDs with Apps Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a corrected post after AI explains the code included in the book “Google Apps Script 101: Building Work Automation For Free”<\/a>. Added a strikethrough<\/s> when editing what AI has written, and added color<\/span> when edited by author<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n
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  1. Summary<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Code<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Code Explanation<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Example<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. AI Prompt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Summary<\/h2>\n

    In this blog post, we will explore how to generate random IDs using Apps Script. We will write a function that creates a random ID of a specified length using a character pool. This can be useful for generating unique identifiers for various purposes.<\/p>\n

    Code<\/h2>\n
    function getRandomId() {\n  const idLength = 10\n  const charPool = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'\n  let randomId = ''\n  \n  for (let i = 0; i < idLength; i++) {\n    randomId += charPool.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charPool.length))\n  }  \n  \n  return randomId\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Code Explanation<\/h2>\n
    The code defines a function getRandomId<\/code> that generates a random ID. It uses a constant idLength<\/code> to specify the length of the ID, and a constant charPool<\/code> to define the characters that can be used in the ID.<\/p>\n
    A variable randomId<\/code> is initialized as an empty string. The function then loops idLength<\/code> times, each time appending a random character from the charPool<\/code> using the charAt<\/code> method.<\/p>\n
    Finally, the generated ID is returned.<\/p>\n
    AI Prompt<\/h2>\n
    Write a function that generates a random ID of a specified length using a character pool. Log the generated ID. The function should take the ID length and the character pool as parameters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    In this blog post, we will explore how to generate random IDs using Apps Script. We will write a function that creates a random ID of a specified length using a character pool. This can be useful for generating unique identifiers for various purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,118],"tags":[512,69,7],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet","category-apps-script","tag-ai-assisted","tag-script","tag-spreadsheet"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}