How to add id index to a database entry

Ooooh! My least favorite topic in Bubble! Short answer:

No, the Bubble database does not have this property of some other databases. And, though you’d like to have it, you don’t actually need such a feature (your Things already have unique IDs, a Search for Things sorted by their creation date will show you their order of creation, etc.).

For a discussion, see How to achieve Unique, Sequential Numbers Reliably? - #57 by morgan

Read that post first, then read entire thread. At end of the thread, I provide an updated approach. Doing this reliably in Bubble is (1) a bit complex and (2) wasteful of WUs so I’d just advise you to not do it/take a different approach to generating other types of IDs that might be more human-friendly. But that thread is a classic. There have been other discussions around this topic more recently, including Auto Incremented Field.

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