Programmatically adding a sequence number to the 'Title' column during item creation in SP List

Question

As per the title above, I have a list that stores IT support requests. I need a sequence number that matches with the item ID and I want to add this sequence number to the Title of the request.

I know that we can add an item added event receiver and get it done. Since I am already adding the request item via a Visual webpart thought it might be nice to have all the functionalities under one shell.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

First add the List Item so its Id is generated, than get the item again... Update its Title field and concat Id column with it.. Pseudo-code below:

ListItem newItem = lstObject.Items.Add();
newItem["Field"] = "something";

newItem.Update();

newItem = lstObject.Items.GetItemById(newItem.Id);
newItem["Title"] = "YourText" + newItem.Id.ToString();
newItem.Update();

If you don't want the other update to create version than you can use UpdateOverwriteVersion() instead of Update() function!