AutoNumber Options

[Coolboy55]

I want to create an AutoNumber type field that uses prefixes. For instance, the Employee numbers would be E-1, E-2, E-3... and the Task numbers would be T-1, T-2, T-3...

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks!

CB55

[Stewart Ross]

I want to create an AutoNumber type field that uses prefixes. For instance, the Employee numbers would be E-1, E-2, E-3... and the Task numbers would be T-1, T-2, T-3...

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks!

CB55

Hi. Autonumbers are not the answer to your requirement, for two reasons. Firstly, your requirement is for a compound key (in this case a two-part key). Autonumbers are just numbers - automatically incremented, but still just numbers. Secondly, even if you create a two-part key with the second part an autonumber, it increments in record-added sequence and cannot be reset to 1 for each new prefix you add.

Your compound key can be created using a combination of a character field and a Long, but the incrementing will need to be done programmaticall y or using SQL.

-Stewart