Hello.
One of my boards is used as a bug tracking system. Each item is considered a ticket, or change request.
I have a number column where we manually input the ticket number, in the format CR2020-xxxx. So CR2020-0001, CR2020-0002, etc. Every time a new ticket is created, we look at the last number, and +1.
As the board increases, and the “Done” tasks get moved, it’s getting trickier to know which is the next number. Even more so if 2 people are doing that at the same time. So I’m hoping to find some automated way to, whenever a new item is created in this board, auto-populate that value.
Does anyone know a way to do that? Maybe using a formula column?
Or any other creative solution to this problem? Pining a fake item at the top, where I keep the new number available, or something?
Thanks!
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Hey @cquad, I wonder if you’ve checked out the item ID column for this! Let me know what you think 
It can even then be added to or changed using the formula column, with letters or functions such as concatenate.
I did try the Id column. But it showed me gigantic numbers, and I couldn’t find an option to customize it. So now you’re telling me that I have to use 2 columns to be able to achieve this?
Can you show me an example of such a formula?