Hi Guys When creating a new thing, how do I go about creating a unique ID for it, so that the thing can be displayed according to that ID. Preferably the ID would be in the form of an invoice name that increases by 1 each time a new thing is created e.g. mycompany0001 then mycompany0002 etc Thank…

You can use Do a search for:count to get the count of those Things, and set a field to that number+1.

@deadpoetnsp does this create an ID number or it just lets you search ?

Ok let me break it down. You can create a field, say, MyUID, in a Thing When you create a new Thing (of that Type) you want to set MyUID to an increasing number, say index1, index2, and so on in other words, when you make the second thing, you want the index n to be the same as the count of the Th…

Thanks man, I appreciate the breakdown. Will implement this tonight.

Thanks Keith, will go through this thread as well before starting

Unique ID for each new data type/thing

Need help

keith November 23, 2020, 6:29pm 6

Please note: while the above suggestion points in the right direction, it is not complete and reliable. Please see the following thread for a detailed discussion of how to do this reliably and without collisions in Bubble:

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Unique ID for each new data type/thing

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