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Primary Key generation (record ID)

 		6/15/2004 2:39:54 PM
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I'm currently testing ASPRunner Pro for my company, and my manager wants to make sure the unique record ID is generated in this format "YYYYMMDDNNNN". The first 8 numbers are just the current date the record is generated, and the last 4 numbers would be the records generated that day. For example, I'm inputing a record into the database today, and I'm the first user to make a data entry for today, and my record ID would be automatically generated as "200406150001". Is there any way I could do that? Please help
Sergey Kornilov admin 6/18/2004

I guess you need to create a separate table which should hold last created record number for each day (or just for todays date). Also you need a separate stored procedure/query that will generate unique record ID based on your rules. Unfortunately ASPRunner won't help you doing this.
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 		BJones 9/3/2004

You could write a custom funtion that generates the key for you. In Asprunner mark the primary key field by using the 'Edit as' command to a text field and then use the 'Change as' to set the default value to a function name like this: GetNextID().
Now create an ASP function that returns the ID in any format you want. In your case I would probably select the MAX + 1 on the last four characters of the primary key field and append that to today's date.
The only problem with this procedure is I haven't found a way to make a text field visible but read only in ASPRunner without going in and tweaking the generated code.