In my last article on document ID we looked at how SharePoint 2010 document center allows you to add new documents to the site and then after they are assigned unique ID – be able to find them by that ID. In past versions the problem was that you have no control on what the resulting ID will end up being.
In SharePoint 2010 – there is no visual way for you to decide what is your ID going to be – however this short screencast talk about how you can implement such a capability by extending document id provider.
First part of the video Michal talks about the concept of document ID and how they can be used. The second part I show Visual Studio code sample as well as a way to deploy the custom provider.
Enjoy!