Incremental Fields

[wordmuse]

Hi,

OK - another suggestion for the no-rest-for-the-weary-Kinook.

I'd like to see a field type called "incremental" which would let me increment new records by some increment.

For example, if the increment field was numeric, the next record would increment by +1. If it was alpha, you could increase it by a letter, and follow spreadsheet conventions to go beyond z, with aa, ab, ac, ... az, ba, bb, bc, ..., bz

And so on.

If doing both numeric and alpha is too much to ask for, then I'd be happy with just numeric.

What do you think?

Regards,
Bal

[kevina]

Currently an attribute that does some of what you are requesting is available, the ItemID attribute, which is not displayed by default. It is an auto-incrementing system attribute which can be displayed, searched and exported.

You enable display of this attribute at Tools | Options | Attributes <tab>, checking the ItemID checkbox, and clicking OK.

The ItemID attribute is not editable and will never contain a letter sequence, but is guaranteed to be unique (to the .urd file) and growing (numbers can be missing from the "sequence" if items are deleted once a larger ItemID has been assigned).