Serial Numbers and Commit

[Greg Hains]

Hi

I am having trouble getting serial numbers to work correctly. As per Help and two manuals, I follow the procedure of having a serial number created upon Commit, and when I create a new record the new serial number is created, but if I back out of that record without Committing, the serial number stays incremented.

The only non-vanilla thing I am doing is inserting text into fields in that record first - might that be committing it in some way?

Greg

[Søren Dyhr]

Yes if you click outside the field, and there are always a danger a user might do so!

--sd

[Greg Hains]

Hi Soren.

I have checked this several times but still it increments before I commit. I go to the new record layout, NewRecord and then nothing more, yet still the number increments.

Aside from changing/selecting fields, what else counts as a Commit?

Greg

[Slobey]

If you delete the first record before you create the new one, it will not incriment. But if you click new record, I believe it automatically commits the old one before creating a new one

[Greg Hains]

Hi.

I dont understand. If I have 300 existing and data-filled records and then in a single command then create a new one, why would I want to delete a perfectly good record first?

Please explain.

Greg

[comment]

I think you should explain how do you "back out of that record without Committing". Is your layout set up to save record changes automatically?