Set Up System Level AutonumberingSet Up System Level AutonumberingYou use the System Level dialog box to specify autonumber seeds and prefixes for applications at the system level.
Incidents is a system level application and incident IDs are unique at the system level. If you implement autonumbering for incidents, with a seed of 1000, then the system increments each new incident record by one, regardless of where the incident is entered. If incident 1000 is inserted at Site 1 in Organization A, and the next incident is inserted at Site 3 in Organization B, then the incident number at Site 3 will be 1001.
In the Organizations (SP) application, select the organization for which you want to set up autonumbering.
From the Select Action menu, select Autonumber Setup, then select System Level. The System Level dialog box opens.
The Autonumber table window displays the system level applications for which you can implement autonumbering, and their current seeds and prefixes.
Click View Details
in the row where you want to define autonumbering.
Note: You can also edit directly in the table window.
In the Seed field, enter or edit the seed value. The default seed value is 1000.
If you want the autonumber to be preceded by a standard value, for example, IN (for incident) enter a value in the Prefix field.
Click Close Details
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Enter seeds for other applications as needed.
Click OK.
Note: Even though you specify the numbering scheme for autonumbering in the Organizations (SP) application, it is not automatically implemented in the entity you are autonumbering. To do that you use the Database Configuration application. For the attribute (field) you are autonumbering, you must define the Default Value field to be &AUTOKEY& and reconfigure the database. For more information, refer to Database Configuration help.
Set Up Set Level Autonumbering