When I was browsing this forum about my previous problem, I found this thread. A ticket number that applies to all entries in a thread, but is unique to that thread. But I have the same problem as Richard Ecclestone reported, and the "Preset on reply ticket" line from your reply has not had any effect. It appears that on starting a new thread (which is to have that ticket number), the ticket number is just incremented by one from that of the previous (as in previous ID number) entry. This is fine if each thread is completed before a new one started, but if there are more than one active thread, which can be progressed further in any order, new threads are likely to be issued with a ticket number which has already been issued (see Richards's example).

An alternative source of unique numbers would be the Entry number (as in "696 Entries", top right of the midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum page), which would be the seed for the ticket number on new entry. Not sure of the syntax for that, or for the replies to have *that* number for the config file. I know there is a problem if you move a number of threads away, but the only alternative (that I can think of) is to store the seed number somewhere, and increment it every time a new thread is started.

Or have I got something wrong here? Thanks. Regards, David.