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Hi Hanumanth,
There is no compulsion to have data type as Autonumber. I will give you two scenarios:
Scenario (Name)
Account (std object) is having a many2many with Project (custom object) and the Junction object is Opportunities(std object). Opportunity is using the Name and not autonumber (which is following a naming convention like : ProjectName-AccountName-Date).
Scenario (AutoNumber)
Autonumber is used where in the Junction object does not do anything apart from linking two objects for buildign mnay2many relationship. It does not hold any info apart from the lookups. (unlike above scenario where in users capture a lot of info on Opportunity object)
Hope this explains.
Regards,
Anshul
