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    #16
    Re: auto increment

    Originally posted by civitas View Post
    Thanks so much! I really appreciate the help. -- Arthur
    Please describe what you found so anyone who visits this post later might also be able to diagnose their issues.
    There can be only one.

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      #17
      Re: auto increment

      Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
      You don't. Temporarily remove the auto-increment designation, populate the field via an update operation, then reinstate the rule. The auto-increment is a data entry field rule, not something that can be applied retroactively to existing records.
      I'm trying to move an A4v8 "client" file to A5v8. It has an ID field of 5 characters, the max value of which is 26670. No matter what I do, the value entered is 99000. I tried this suggestion of first removing the auto-increment designation and doing an update. Didn't work. I then manually entered three records with values 30000, 30001, and 30002, then re-established the auto-increment. That didn't make any difference either. Still enters 99000,

      I played with it a bit. Made the field 6 characters instead of 5, for example. Then the auto-increment entered the value 990000.

      Very frustrating. This file is way too big to lose. I need some major help here, please.

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        #18
        Re: auto increment

        I've only seen this when my ID field had unexpected data in it. If it were me, I'd study the table to verify that the highest field value is only "26670".

        It's not clear from your post if the field is numeric or character type. If you can't solve this on your own, let us know which is applicable when you reply.

        -- tom

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          #19
          Re: auto increment

          Richard

          Open a default browse for the table. Highlight the ID field, then from the menus - navigate - tools - field statistics. You should see something similar to what the attached image shows for Alphasports.

          Check the max value for that field.
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            #20
            Re: auto increment

            Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr View Post
            I've only seen this when my ID field had unexpected data in it. If it were me, I'd study the table to verify that the highest field value is only "26670".

            It's not clear from your post if the field is numeric or character type. If you can't solve this on your own, let us know which is applicable when you reply.

            -- tom
            Interesting. It's a character field in both A4 and A5. When I sort that field in A4 it displays in strict numerical order--first record "1", last record "26670". When I sort the same field in A5 it shows the first or lowest record as "1", but the highest is "99". Because of some deleted records over the years, there is no record "999" and also there is no "9999". Apparently, the decimal placeholders, or zeros, didn't come thru the conversion properly. Record "00099" in A4 came through as "99000" in A5.

            How can I keep the zeros in their proper places?

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              #21
              Re: auto increment

              Richard, what you describe suggests to me that the data type for the ID field in Alpha Four was numeric, and Alpha Five converted it to character. Did you append records from the Alpha four table, or did you just begin using a copy of the A4 dbf?

              In any case the answer to your original question is now clear. The "99 " sorts to the top of the list, and is being used by the autoinc field rule as expected.

              If you turn off the field rule you can define an "update" operation that will prepend leading zeros using an expression like this:

              padl(alltrim(ID), len(ID), "0")

              I caution you not to do this without making a safety backup copy of your data first. Many an update operation has gone awry and they're dang difficult to reverse. Run the update against a throw away copy of the table first, before running it against your real data.

              Once the field values have been zero filled you can then turn the autoinc field rule back on.

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                #22
                Re: auto increment

                Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr View Post
                Richard, what you describe suggests to me that the data type for the ID field in Alpha Four was numeric, and Alpha Five converted it to character. Did you append records from the Alpha four table, or did you just begin using a copy of the A4 dbf?

                In any case the answer to your original question is now clear. The "99 " sorts to the top of the list, and is being used by the autoinc field rule as expected.

                If you turn off the field rule you can define an "update" operation that will prepend leading zeros using an expression like this:

                padl(alltrim(ID), len(ID), "0")
                Yes, this sounds right to me. Can you give me a little more detail about preparing the update? The genie doesn't seem to allow what I need to do.

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                  #23
                  Re: auto increment

                  OK, got it! Had to mess around with the indexes and not use the genie, but it worked! Thanks for everything.

                  Richard

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