Assigning reference numbers to records
Can someone help walk me through how to do the following?
I'm setting up a database that will be filled out via a form completed by users. They'll have to select a category from a dropdown in a cer...
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Here is a similar thread to this topic that covered something very similar:
https://community.quickbase.com/discussion/autogenerating-number
The suggestion would be to use a formula-field to generate a formula version of the field and then copy that value using a pipeline so it remains static/stored.
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Chayce Duncan
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- MarkShnier__You
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Or just suffix it with the Record ID#. It will be unique and in sequence from low to high, but not sequential. Maybe it does not really need to be sequential?
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
------------------------------That was my plan from the get-go, but someone asked if we can do it the other way, and I said I'd figure out how, not realizing that it would be far more complicated than I anticipated. But I've reverted to the original numbering convention now, after going down a rabbithole of similar threads yesterday!
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Michelle L
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