I have been searching for a solution to this autonumber problem that I am having. There seems to be no definite answer anywhere.
I have a form which has a text field.
I want this form to display the next number from a field in a table.
Example: the table contains 3 records with the values D001, D002, D003
The form is used to enter new records (new data). So next time I enter data I want D004 to automatically show up on the text field for data code in the form.
How can this be done?
You can use the BeforeInsert event of the form:
Me!AutoNumber.Value = Format(Val(Nz(Right(DMax("[AutoNumber]", "[YourTable]"), 3), 0)) + 1, "\D000")
That is 1 way to do this is create a function to handle the autonumber problem u had
create function NextAutoNumber()
returns char(4)
as
begin
declare @lastval char(4)
set @lastval = (select max(autoNumber) from table)
if @lastval is null set @lastval = 'D001'
declare @i int set @i = right(@lastval,3) + 1 return 'C' + right('00' + convert(varchar(10),@i),3)
end
like this you can just call the function anytime and insert the auto number you need for the record