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    #1

    Assign Serial Numbers

    How to assign serial # which all have six digits only (not 5 or 7 digits) for a list of 2000 names & starting with serial 000001?
    also when append with merging with other file etc. all new records shall automatically get new serial #?
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    Re: Assign Serial Numbers

    David, your first question is easy. An "UPDATE" operation can be defined to assign serial values to your character field. Remember to create a couple of good backups of your data before you run any new batch operation, especially an update operation.

    As for your second question I believe you'll find that if you make the serial field an auto-increment field in field rules for the master table that Alpha Five will assign new serial values as each new record is appended from the transaction table. Please test this on dummy data before implementing as its been a long time since I did this and may be remembering it incorrectly. Also, I can't recall off hand what happens if your transaction table already contains serial field values...

    Again, I caution you to have a couple of good backups before running any batch operation, including appends.

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      #3
      Re: Assign Serial Numbers

      The plain update doesn't keep always the 6 digits ?

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        #4
        Re: Assign Serial Numbers

        David, your reply says "it doesn't work" without telling us what you see. Hard to reply further without you painting a better picture. If you're getting less than 6 digits you probably are using a numeric field data type. This will never work if you want to preserve leading zeros. The data type must be character. Might this be what's happening?

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          #5
          Re: Assign Serial Numbers

          The data type is a character type in the single digits there is only 5 digits 000001 in the hundreds everything is 000010.

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            #6
            Re: Assign Serial Numbers

            Sorry your reply is unintelligible by me.

            I dont have vers 5 loaded anymore but would be happy to take a crack at it with vers 8 if you will supply the table.

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              #7
              Re: Assign Serial Numbers

              David, here's an example I created using vers 8. I think it will run in vers 5.

              Follow these steps after unzipping the attachment to an empty folder on your machine.

              1) Browse the customers table to see the data

              2) empty the customers table

              3) pack the customers table

              4) run the script "pop_names_field" to populate the name field in 2000 new records

              5) browse the customers table to see the data, notice that the idnum column is empty

              6) run the script "pop_idnum_w_serial_value" to populate the idnum field with new data

              7) browse the customers table to see that the Idnum column has been filled in correctly.

              I tried to use an update operation to do this but failed. Could not get the leading zeros to appear, so wrote the scripts you'll find in my example.

              Hope this helps.

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                #8
                Re: Assign Serial Numbers

                I was able to make an update work in Tom's example with the expression

                padl(alltrim(str(previous("recno()")+1)),6,"0")
                There can be only one.

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                  #9
                  Re: Assign Serial Numbers

                  Thanks Very helpful
                  But Whats when we append new records how will they get serial?

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                    Re: Assign Serial Numbers

                    But Whats when we append new records how will they get serial?
                    Suggest you copy your database to a different folder and then experiment with it there so your live data is not affected. I suggested using auto-increment field rules in an earlier post in this thread. Does it work? If you have problems tell us what you did and what happened. -- tom

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