I'm currently running a Zope CMF/Plone site, here's my situation: I have a folder that contains several of a custom content type I created called an "EscalationDoc". What I plan on doing is creating another folder to store another custom content type called "EscalationID", each EscalationID will be linked to an EscalationDoc. The reasoning for this is I need to be able to swing what EscalationDoc an EscalationID points to. My problem is that Zope generates very long IDs, like "escalationdoc.2005-01-07.0744968113". These IDs will need to be remembered and entered by humans so I need a short, sequential, unique IDs. If I could use some sort of mutex in Zope I could probably figure this out, but I'm not aware of any such mechanism. Any suggestions? -- Jeffrey Alan Rodriguez Jeffrey.Rodriguez@gmail.com