Ghost rows and Autonumber

[nnnnneil]

I’d like to request an enhancement to Auto Number. At present if a user accidentally creates a row and then “undos” that - the autonumber is not returned. This means that “Ghost rows” end up using a number. The human error is hard to mitigate and it would be better to allow us to choose how ghost rows should be handled.

A suggestion would be to add option to say “Ghost rows retain number” with an on/off switch.

Like this:

[Elias_Gomez_Sai]

Check this:

Autonumber not sequential if records deleted Ask the community

Hello, I’m having issues with Autonumber. I have a simple sequential ID being created as an autonumber, starting with 1, through 2, 3, 4, etc. When a new record is created it automatically assigns a ‘number’ to it. So next in this sequence would be 5. However, for example if we now delete record five, and a new record is created after this, instead of numbering it ‘5’ based on the sequence, it starts at 6. This is a real problem because a bunch of records were created to demonstrate to a c…

[nnnnneil]

Thanks @Elias_Gomez_Sainz. Yes i saw that - but wanted to make the feature request anyway so we can choose the behaviour. Just realised i posted in the wrong forum 😕 (now corrected!).