You could also use Calculator in a pinch. Folks always forget about her. :-) She's fast, and has so many useful options.
But depending on how hard or fast you might generate Article data... You might want to use the UDJC User Defined Java Class and then wire it up to generate a TSID value (in the style of Snowflake ID, Twitter ID Instagram ID, etc.), especially if your multi-processing across Nodes (Machine/Server IDs running Hop) vladmihalcea/hypersistence-tsid: A Java library for generating Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers (TSID). (github.com) <https://github.com/vladmihalcea/hypersistence-tsid> Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ https://calendly.com/thadguidry/
