I use transaction numbers because it allows me to use a single table instead of a Master/Detail.
----- Original Message ----- From: "TOM HART" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:30 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Assigning Invoice Numbers I do not us invoice numbers but transaction numbers for which I create a unique number based on: set var vinv text = ('userid'+(format(.#now,'yymmddhhnnss') I like this approach because it tells me alot of information just from the number ie who did it and when Tom Hart ________________________________ From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Assigning Invoice Numbers That's what I do, except I put the GET number in a separate table and use a Stored Procedure to procure the NEXT number. It keeps the table with a lot of data in it simpler and the table that has the NEXT numbers in it has multiple columns but only one row. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Goldberg" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 4:33 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Assigning Invoice Numbers :I just use the next function with autonum on the column. It will grab and : increment the next number. : : : From Help: : : (NEXT(tblname,autonumcol)) : Returns the next value of an autonumbered column. : : Where colname is an autonumbered column in tblname NEXT returns, and : increments, the value of the next available autonumber. You cannot use this : function with INSERT, but you can use it with LOAD;NONUM. For example: : Assume that you have autonumbered the column EmployeeID in the table : Employees. The highest number currently used in the database is 134. In this : case, in the following example, the value of vNextOne will be 135 and the : value of vNextTwo will be 136. : : Notice that the value has incremented even though no other commands or : functions were issued. : : SET VAR vNextOne = (NEXT(Employees,EmployeeID)) : : SET VAR vNextTwo = (NEXT(Employees,EmployeeID)) : : Dan : : : -----Original Message----- : From: Les Stark : Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:32 AM : To: RBASE-L Mailing List : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Assigning Invoice Numbers : : I am having a problem with duplicate invoice numbers. : I have a table INVNUM with a column INVNBR that holds an integer : value for the invoice number. : When I create a new invoice, SET VAR VINV#=INVNBR IN INVNUM to get : the last invoice number from the table : then I increment that number SET VAR VINV#=(.VINVNBR + : 1) the incremented number is used for the current invoice : then I update the table UPDATE INVNUM SET INVNBR=.VINV# : : The table is ready for the next new invoice and the current invoice : is written with the value of VINV# : This is a multiple user database and is using Row Locks, Column Verify : on the tables : How am I getting duplicate invoice numbers? : Is there a better way to assign Invoice Numbers? : : : -- : :
