Serial Number will not auto generate in portal

[mgxdigital]

Hi!

I have a portal on my layout and the first field in it is a auto generated serial number. For some reason whenever I create a new record, the portal does not fill in the serial number on my first portal line. But if I fill in the other boxes and go to the next portal row, the second serial number will fill in and so on.

Is there a trick to making the first row in the portal create this serial number?

Thank you so much in advance for any help!

[comment]

Could you post a demo file showing the problem?

[James Marshall]

Was the data for the 1st record created before the serialization was added in define database?

Good luck,

James

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