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Created by Brendan Radich
Created on Jul 7, 2022

Better "Manual" Numbering

For certain record types, we prefer to disable the "Auto increment number" feature, which gives our users a little more flexibility in their numbering schemes. However, ProjectSight doesn't sort record numbers correctly if users mix numbers with and without leading zeros (very common).

We would like to be able to do two things to solve this:

1. Define a number of characters, even when auto-numbering is disabled.

Ideally, we could also define some kind of separator, such as "." or "r", so that this number of characters would only apply before the separator. It's common for our users to create revisions numbered as .1 or r1.
2. Allow us to automatically pad manually created numbers with leading zeros.

For example, if we define a records type's number to 3 characters (before the separator), the system would automatically turn 1 into 001. Likewise, if set to 4 characters, it would automatically turn 1 into 0001. For revisions, we could put 1.1 and it would automatically make it 0001.1.

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