# Creating an index in glide big tables

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431>\
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**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431 "2023-11-01T02:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Airbid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/airbid/32/60953_2.png) [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431/1 "2023-11-01T02:13:24Z")

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Glide big tables doesn’t allow looking up the row ids inside the table, then using find element array to create an index. Any other way we could create an index for big tables?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431/2 "2023-11-01T02:20:00Z")

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I’m not aware of any way to create a dynamic row index in a Big Table, no.

Curious - what is your use case? eg. why do you need the index?

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**Author:** ![Airbid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/airbid/32/60953_2.png) [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431/3 "2023-11-01T02:21:46Z")

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I’m parsing a JSON array from a “search” table into a “results” table and looking for a way to enumerate the rows in my table dynamically because there are a lot of arrays

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-index-in-glide-big-tables/67431/4 "2023-11-01T02:25:17Z")

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Okay. Is it actually necessary to be using a Big Table for this?  
I can understand that you might want to write some of the processed data into a Big Table, but I would have thought it would make sense to use a regular table for all the processing/manipulation?