Incremental Number on a Custom Form

[R.Jayawardane]

I'm using Exchange 2000(SP3) and outlook 2002.

I have a custom form published in Organizational Forms
Library. In that form there is a user-defined filed name
called RefNo. All the users use this form to send memos &
letters internally. I would like to introduce a serial
number, which should be a part of the RefNo, so that when
a user sends a memo it takes the next available serial
number and adds to the RefNo avoiding duplicate serial
numbers.

Can somebody help me please.

Your help is highly appreciated.

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

I have a custom form published in Organizational Forms
Library. In that form there is a user-defined filed name
called RefNo. All the users use this form to send memos &
letters internally. I would like to introduce a serial
number, which should be a part of the RefNo, so that when
a user sends a memo it takes the next available serial
number and adds to the RefNo avoiding duplicate serial
numbers.

MS has a KB article that tells how to do this using an Access database.
See the following article:
Q172796 - Creating Sequentially-Numbered Items in a Folder

As the number indicates, it is quite old. See if you can find the
current version with a higher number.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Using Virtual Access 4.52 build 277 (32-bit), Windows 2000 build 2195
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?FR=0&SD=TECH&LN=EN-US

Mukilteo, WA USA

 

[R. Jayawardane]

Thanks Paul, now I have an idea of how to do it.

-----Original Message-----

wrote:

I have a custom form published in Organizational Forms
Library. In that form there is a user-defined filed name
called RefNo. All the users use this form to send memos &
letters internally. I would like to introduce a serial
number, which should be a part of the RefNo, so that when
a user sends a memo it takes the next available serial
number and adds to the RefNo avoiding duplicate serial
numbers.

MS has a KB article that tells how to do this using an Access database.
See the following article:
Q172796 - Creating Sequentially-Numbered Items in a Folder

As the number indicates, it is quite old. See if you can find the
current version with a higher number.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Using Virtual Access 4.52 build 277 (32-bit), Windows 2000 build 2195
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp? FR=0&SD=TECH&LN=EN-US

Mukilteo, WA USA


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