no autoincrement field

[peterberlin]

hello,
I want to increment the content (a four-digit number) in a text field with each new record.
7040,7041,7042,7043,........
This requires knowing the value of the last record.
Does anyone have an idea?
peter

[rabii]

Why not use Number (auto-increment) field. i think it should do the job for you.

[peterberlin]

There are two reasons against an auto increment field:

A) There is already an auto increment field in the entity.
B) An auto increment field always starts at 1 and counts through all the previous records. We already have 3300 records and want to start with the number 7041 from 3301.

[esforim]

You can start the number you want peter, just put 7041, and the next time you create a record I think it either use 7041 or 7042, I can't remember.

It doesn't force you from 0. And it only start on new record

[peterberlin]

Thank you.
but I have found another solution. I worked with dBase in the 80s and had similar problems.
In espo, I created a separate entity with only one record. I know exactly the ID of this data record. Now I access the fields like external storage locations. Programmers will only smile tiredly at this idea. But I have solved my problem well.

[shalmaxb]

As I have a similar problem I would like to know a bit more detailed, what exactly you did. Would you be so kind to explain a bit more? Thank you.

[peterberlin]

This is a simple solution.
i have created an entity named "configuration". there is only one record. The individual fields are configuration parameters for me. Since I know the ID of this record, I can easily access it.
There is one small advantage to this. I can grant user access to these fields/parameters.