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Ok let me break it down.

  1. You can create a field, say, MyUID, in a Thing
  2. When you create a new Thing (of that Type) you want to set MyUID to an increasing number, say index1, index2, and so on
  3. in other words, when you make the second thing, you want the index n to be the same as the count of the Things right before the new Thing is created + 1
  4. “Do a search for [type of Thing]:count” gets you the count of that type of Thing in Bubble
  5. So when you create a new Thing of type X, in the workflow, set the field MyUID of that new Thing to [prefix+] Do a search for [that type of thing]:count
  6. accordingly, the first Thing’s MyUID will become [prefix]+[0+1] = prefix1; there second Thing’s MyUID will become [prefix]+[1+1] = prefix2, and so on
  7. you don’t need to use a prefix and can instead store a numeric id
  8. Subsequently, you can use the MyUID field of that Thing to search, sort, retrieve by index, etc
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