Hi Brian!
As you've noticed, each 'entity' carried it's own unique identifier number - specific to that entity. So Defects has it's own list of ID numbers, Requirements has it's own, etc.
We've discussed several enhancements that we'd like to do for custom fields, including something like an auto-incremented numeric field. We do something sort of like this in Requirements Titles, where you can put REQ-XXXX in the title and it will auto-increment the title to REQ-0001. I believe it looks for three alpha characters, a dash, and then X's. But it's only in Requirements, and only in the Title.
I'll add your suggestion to the enhancement discussion.
Thanks for your input, we appreciate it!
