# Create a table record from the app that can auto generate table ID

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497>\
**Category:** Support, Troubleshooting, & Help\
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497 "2021-04-20T06:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nolsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nolsie](https://community.tulip.co/u/Nolsie)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497/1 "2021-04-20T06:45:33Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to create an “Andon Event” app that you can enter data such as part number, image, description etc in the app and display this in a table. I want to make the ID’s so that event 1 has ID of 0001 and event 2 has ID of 0002 and so on. The person who enters the data however will not know what the next ID is. Is there a way that this can be done, so the next Andon event has an ID of the previous event +1.

Thanks,

Nolan

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**Author:** ![gio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/gio/32/82_2.png) [@gio](https://community.tulip.co/u/gio)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497/2 "2021-04-20T06:56:10Z")

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hello @Nolsie, welcome to the Tulip Community!! it would be great if you could introduce yourself at: [Welcome to the Community, let's meet!](https://community.tulip.co/t/welcome-to-the-community-lets-meet/738)!!

this Post: [Increment table ID field from the app - #3 by gio](https://community.tulip.co/t/increment-table-id-field-from-the-app/1954/3) describes how you can use the Table API to get incremental ID’s based on the max in the Table. (as a note, the Product team is looking into other solutions to make this more streamlined, but this should help in the meantime.)

let us know if you have further questions!!

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**Author:** ![Nolsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nolsie](https://community.tulip.co/u/Nolsie)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497/3 "2021-04-20T23:56:26Z")

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Thanks for that link @gio, i’ll try that out tomorrow.

Nolan

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**Author:** ![porkareh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@porkareh](https://community.tulip.co/u/porkareh)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/create-a-table-record-from-the-app-that-can-auto-generate-table-id/2497/4 "2025-08-16T06:18:01Z")

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Hello,  
I want to generate ID table base on a format, for example it start with st-xxx and the next number must be the last number that saved on ID field.