# 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](/administrator-tasks/creating-and-editing-namespaces-and-identifiers.md) for more information.

### How to configure automatically triggered incremental identifiers

1. Select 'Administrator Tools' from the dashboard side panel.

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2. Select 'Manage Stewardship Organisations'.

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3. Select the relevant Stewardship Organization from the list.

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4. Select 'Managed Items', then 'Namespace'.

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5. Select 'Create Namespace'.

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6. Adjust the 'Name', 'Shorthand prefix' and 'Definition' fields as desired.

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7. From the Autoincrement dropdown, select 'Automatically assigned incrementing identifier'.

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7. Select the automatically triggered identifier's triggers via the 'Metadata types', 'Metadata templates', 'Registration authorities' and 'Registration statuses' checkbox lists.

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**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.

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10. The item's identifier will now appear in its infobox.

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