How to Add Auto Incremental Field on QGIS

Hello everyone, welcome to QGIS Tutorial for Beginners. On this article, we are going to learn how to add Auto Incremental Field on QGIS. Auto Incremental Field is a special field that contains a sequential value on each record. It is useful when you want to add a unique ID to your table. Let’s start.

First, open the layer on QGIS. And then go to Vector Table | Add autoincremental field menu. This menu is available in QGIS Toolbox.

How to Add Auto Incremental Field on QGIS

1. Double-click Add autoincremental field menu
2. Select the input layer.
3. Specify the field name. By default, it will use the AUTO as the field name. You can change it to something else if you want.
4. Change the starting value. By default, it will start from 0.
5. Click Run in Background to start the process.

Now you can check the attribute table. You should see there is a new field there with the incremented values.