When you create a Microsoft® Repository object (with the CreateObject method), you can either supply an object identifier or let Microsoft Repository assign one automatically. In most cases, let Repository assign one. You should explicitly assign an object identifier in only one case: when you are inserting a replica of an object represented in some other repository database into Microsoft Repository. This ensures that the newly created object's object identifier matches the object identifier used for the object that already exists in the other repository database. This case applies whenever you insert a new tool information model into Microsoft Repository.
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