# Configuring automatically triggered incremental identifiers
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Automatically triggered incremental identifiers can only be configured by an Administrator of the relevant Stewardship Organization.
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Stewardship Organization Administrators can add automatically triggered incremental identifiers to metadata items, and configure them. An incremental identifier is an identifier which increases by a single value with each new item it is assigned to.
**Note:** Incremental identifiers must exist within a namespace, which itself must exist within a Stewardship Organization. See this procedure's [parent page](https://help.aristotlemetadata.com/administrator-tasks/creating-and-editing-namespaces-and-identifiers) for more information.
### How to configure automatically triggered incremental identifiers
1. Select 'Administrator Tools' from the dashboard side panel.
2. Select 'Manage Stewardship Organisations'.
3. Select the relevant Stewardship Organization from the list.
4. Select 'Managed Items', then 'Namespace'.
5. Select 'Create Namespace'.
6. Adjust the 'Name', 'Shorthand prefix' and 'Definition' fields as desired.
7. From the Autoincrement dropdown, select 'Automatically assigned incrementing identifier'.
7. Select the automatically triggered identifier's triggers via the 'Metadata types', 'Metadata templates', 'Registration authorities' and 'Registration statuses' checkbox lists.
**Notes:**
* Metadata item templates will only appear in the 'Metadata templates' list if they are active, as opposed to drafts
* The 'Regisitration authorities' and 'Registration statuses' lists will only appear if the relevant Stewardship Organization contains Registration Authorities.
10. The item's identifier will now appear in its infobox.
