Sometimes you have to hit the modding manual really hard too - it is often a bit confusing but once you work out the format it generally steers you in the right direction.
Looking forward to the end product - I should have a lot of updating to do on the modlist by the end of this week.
These issues will in all probability not yet be addressed in the next patch, but I'll gather the lot of them to a modding issues shortlist and put them in a bit of a spotlight so we can hopefully get armor assignment by number, startsite assignment by number and on the map side, item assignment by number.