https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: Auto-number a form en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:38:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-45196 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:42:40 +0000 Chris Hajer 45196@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@andypaddock, please start a new topic with your request and we will be happy to help you accomplish what you're looking to do. Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-45190 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:12:39 +0000 andypaddock 45190@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Would like to resurrect this post.</p> <p>Carl your last comments very quickly turn into white noise for my limited PHP knowledge, the only thing missing from these forms is a unique ID per form. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-25864 Wed, 18 May 2011 16:56:00 +0000 Carl Hancock 25864@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There isn't currently a built in feature for doing this, although it is a feature we would like to add in the future.</p> <p>Why not store the Entry ID in the third party database and generate a sequential unique ID in that database also? If you are adding the submissions to another database anyway, you could generate a sequential ID when you create a new record in that database.</p> <p>Your other option is to use custom PHP and write a customization. Create a hidden field on your form to store the ID, then populate that ID using PHP. Each time the form is submitted you'd query the entries for that form to get the last ID and then increment it and store the value in the hidden field. That is another solution. you'd have to use the available API hooks and write some custom PHP to do this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-25863 Wed, 18 May 2011 16:49:47 +0000 FBS_web 25863@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have looked at the entry ID, but we have over 40 forms and I only need this numbering on one form, so using the entry ID would leave lots of holes in the numbering. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-25861 Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:58 +0000 Carl Hancock 25861@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you use the Entry ID? It is a unique number that increases with each form and is sequential, although across all forms. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-number-a-form#post-25848 Wed, 18 May 2011 13:26:45 +0000 FBS_web 25848@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I would like to be able to add a unique number that increases sequentially to each form. This would be helpful in adding the submissions to another database. </p>