Hi Everyone, hope you are all fine..

We have set up our database and seem to sync fine from a ios device.

When the fresh file was downloaded to ios device.... when a new record was created the device id was displayed/identified as: 1.001..

The second record was created from ios device and the record id was displayed/identified as: 1.002 ..

 

We then developed/changed the main file on the server and re-distributed the file from there to the ios device again...

when creating the next record from the ios device, the record id is: 2.003.

 

The question is, why did the device id change from "1" to "2"?  Is this normal?

The problem we foresee is, if we continue developing and re-distributing the updated file, soon the device id will be 100 or even 1000....

 

Hupe my question is clear...

Thanks in advance 

 

Izan

This is normal. Every time a new offline file is synced for the first time, it gets a new unique and sequential database ID. Since these are unique, it's fine to combine them with a serial number like you're doing to generate a new primary key.

I don't see why it's a problem for the device IDs to be 100, 1000, or 50000. If you want shorter numbers, you might want to look into the writeback feature of MirrorSync:

http://docs.360works.com/index.php/MirrorSync_advanced_topics#Write-back_values_for_user-visible_numbers