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I actually have a better idea. Note how each generation has the name ${common-identifier}-$generation-link. You could thus simply store a tag by using ${common-identifier}-$tag and simply pointing that at the right link. Downside is, that you're limited to the "standard" alphanumeric + dash character set, plus the first character shouldn't be a number, but I'd say this is good enough for most practical purposes. Cheers