Duplicating an item doesn't generate new ID about netlify-cms-widgets HOT 4 OPEN

Currently the generate function is coded within the React component that drives the input:

I think it'd be good to extract it out into a util function & export it

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Hi @henrikwirth, thanks for opening this issue!

It looks like there's a 'prepublish' event we can hook into to generate a uuid for a field. I think this could potentially solve this issue:
https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/beta-features/#registering-to-cms-events

This repo is quite outdated so I'm hesitate to dive back in, if you want to take a crack at setting something up (a new widget, or an update to this one) I'm happy to assist with any issues you might run into!

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I think I might have found a way. There is a newRecord: true on the data that is passed to the prePublish hook if the item is newly created/duplicated. If we check for that, we can trigger the generation of the ID right there instead of initially pre-populated.

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CMS.registerEventListener({
  name: "preSave",
  handler: ({ entry }) => {
    const data = entry.get("data");

    if (entry.get("newRecord")) {
      return data.set("id", "test-1234");
    }
  },
});

Not sure how we would access the Control Object to generate the ID according to the props. Any idea?

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