Form Autonumber

[JABarrett]

After many hours headache trying to figure out a system to incorperate an
autonumber in a form design without it being linked to any kind of database,
it would be nice if the Infopath development team would design such a feature
so that it is part of the software rather than having to try to figure out
ways around this not being included.

 

[Steve van Dongen [MSFT]]

After many hours headache trying to figure out a system to incorperate an
autonumber in a form design without it being linked to any kind of database,
it would be nice if the Infopath development team would design such a feature
so that it is part of the software rather than having to try to figure out
ways around this not being included.

It can't be done with client software. A random number could be
generated on the client but in order to ensure uniqueness the number
must be generated on a server.

Regards,
Steve

 

[Dirk]

Dear Steve !

As I found out in reading the different questions and on our Microsoft
partner meeting for ISV in Düsseldorf (your Technology promoter Olivier
Hepfner and Dariusz Parys) the autonumber is very important !

To find a form again, it would be very helpful to have a autonumber out of
the box, even with barcode printing.

My idea to do it :

A Synchronizied autonumber from on server out of the box with info path
2003x.

1. create a number file on the server
2. put the number in the form
3. add x (+1) on the number and save it back to the file

next time : file exit, take the number +1 and so on...

B workstations without connection to server

file creation with network MAC-Adress of the machine

back in the network push the new invoice after time and date of the
workstation to the share point portal server

Maybe a long number ? But it should work and it´s easy

Best wishes