Hi James,

This is not implemented in the current version of the xforms module. But
looks like something that i can quickly do.
If i have two global properties:

xforms.autoIncrementFormField (the name of the field to auto increment)
xforms.nextAutoIncrementValue (the next available value for the auto
increment field)

Would that satisfy your requirement?



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:06 PM, James Arbaugh <[email protected]>wrote:

> When designing an HTML form, or xForm, is there a way to pre-populate the
> field in the form with the next consecutive number for that observation
> type?  We’re evaluating entering our blood bank data into OpenMRS.  One of
> the fields to be entered is the serial number for the bag of donated blood.
> Every year the serial number starts over at 1.  The bags don’t have a serial
> number printed on them, but it’s written on by hand.  In the current patient
> registry it’s easy to look on the line above and see what the last serial
> number was, and what to write on the bag.  In the patient form, it’s not so
> easy anymore.  I suspect the clerks would have trouble keeping track of the
> last serial number, and I would like the form to be able to do that for
> them.  Since the serial number is not patient specific, I doubt the <lookup>
> tag would work.  Is there perhaps a way to do this with JavaScript?  Any
> suggestions for this complex problem.****
>
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>
> Thanks,****
>
> James Arbaugh****
>
> Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti****
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