# Generate GUID
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [February 12, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752 "2008-02-12T01:00:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@cpdaniel](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/cpdaniel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752/1 "2008-02-12T01:00:18Z")
Any slick built-in trick to generate a new GUID value into a variable? I suppose that I can shell out to uuidgen.exe, but it seems like there ought to be an easier way.
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### Author:  [@cpdaniel](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/cpdaniel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752/2 "2008-02-12T01:20:12Z")
Here's a way that's not bad - define a variable to receive the Guid (e.g. ProductCode), and then use:
ProductCode = ActiveXObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib").guid.substring(1, 37).toLowerCase();
in a BeforeAction script in FB.
BUT...
This doesn't work in FinalBuilder. It works when the JS is run under cscript/wscript.
Any better solutions? Like one that works :)
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752/3 "2008-02-12T03:34:48Z")
Hi Carl,
There’s a built in script function called “NewGUIDString” that should do what you need 🙂
.t8
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### Author:  [@cpdaniel](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/cpdaniel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752/4 "2008-02-12T03:48:33Z")
Cool - I'll give that a try tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@cpdaniel](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/cpdaniel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/generate-guid/752/5 "2008-02-12T05:38:20Z")
Couldn't wait - tried it tonight. Works great, thanks!