Duplicating Serial Numbers?

[Jalz]

Hi Guys,

Im working with FMP 6 on the Mac, and I have a question regarding serial numbers. I've got a client with 16 workstations, and files are hosted on a Mac OS X machine with FMS 5.5.

I have a field called Jobnumber which is defined as an autoenter serial number field. Everytime someone clicks on new, they get a new record with a new number. My client says that he has a couple of records with the SAME number (-in other words the automatic serial number doesn't work). He rekons that if a couple of guys hit new at the same time theres a chance that the system might get duplicate Jobnumbers.

Has anyone else encountered this - coz' I cant reproduce this in my client server environment and my clients 300 miles away? Is there something in the caching on the server that I need to change?

Any help would be great;y appreciated

Cheers

[RalphL]

Is this field set so that it can not be modified?

I doubt that if all 16 hit new at the same time there would be duplicate serial numbers.

[Jalz]

Hi Ralph,

No its not set to be not modifiable. But like you said, I doubt they could duplicate that Jobnumber, if all 16 hit the new button all at once.

I think I might make the trip down to see my client to test out his system. It might also be an idea to make field entry in the jobnumber field, not modifiable.