Joshua, if one maintains the last item number elsewhere retrieve it and increment/save its perhaps more efficent. Of course this action needs a trigger so I have placed it at the beginning of a button that creates the new item.
Another trick is I have used this method to generate a tiddler serial number if one does not exist on a tiddler on save tiddler. Regards Tont -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8aee2336-97af-429c-8773-fb34a8e1a39a%40googlegroups.com.