Strapi Advanced UUID
Custom Field plugin for Strapi to generate UUID based on your regular expressions
The Strapi Advanced UUID Plugin is a custom plugin for Strapi that automatically generates a unique UUID for your content. It also allows you to generate UUID based on your regular expressions.
## ⚠️ Compatibility with Strapi versions
Starting from version 2.0.0, the Strapi Advanced UUID plugin is compatible with Strapi 5 and can't be used in Strapi 4.4+.
| Plugin version | Strapi version |
| -------------- | -------------- |
| 2.x.x | ≥ 5.0.0 |
| 1.x.x | ≥ 4.4 |
## ⚙️ Installation
To install the Strapi Advanced UUID Plugin, simply run one of the following command:
```
npm install strapi-advanced-uuid
```
```
yarn add strapi-advanced-uuid
```
## ⚡️ Usage
### How to Setup Advanced UUID Field
After installation you will find the `Advanced UUID` at the custom fields section of the content-type builder.
Now you can define the field attributes. `Advanced UUID` field allows you to define the custom regular expression (`UUID format`) for your field. Default UUID format will be [`UUID V4`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid#uuidv4options-buffer-offset).
### How to Use Custom Regular Expression
Now You can create new records via the Admin panel, API or GraphQL, and the plugin will automatically generate a UUID for each new record created.
## 👍 Contribute
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## 🧾 License
This plugin is licensed under the MIT License. See the [LICENSE](./LICENSE.md) file for more information.