List ID Generation?

Webix JS
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So I’m brand new to Webix, actually considering it as a replacement for ExtJS (whose entire development team was let go after Sencha was bought out by IDERA recently).

I went through the quick start at: https://webix.com/quick-start and just out of curiosity, adding #id# to the template at step #5, I noticed once I got to add_row in step #8, adding a new row resulted a randomly huge id. What is the reason for this? And is there a way to generate an id in a more sequential fashion?

I would assume has I started with an empty dataset, my first added record should have had an id of 1, followed by, 2, 3, 4… etc.

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Hi,

Such ids are automatically generated with webix.uid() function for data items without their own ids. The function outputs a timestamp-based value, which ensures the unique item id.

To achieve a sequential pattern, you need to add fixed ids: https://webix.com/snippet/397a3646