Why Line No. automatically started with 10000.???

devu_13

Hi experts
I want to know about Line No. which increses with 10000 or started with 10000.Why?
can we defined it for 1 or 100?

DenSter

It's just one of those things they defined that way. It allows lines to be inserted in form that have the AutoSplitKey property turned on. They put in place a value that would allow you to insert a number of lines. It would be nice to have some sort of property and be able to set it to other values, but unfortunately that is not the case.

Savatage

devu_13 wrote:

I want to know about Line No. which increses with 10000 or started with 10000.Why?
can we defined it for 1 or 100?

Now that you know it's just one of those things that is set that way, why would you want to change it anyway?
Is it a problem?

devu_13

Hi
No i want just know it.so ok its fine
Thanks a Lot

David_Singleton

the reason for 10,000 is quite logical actually. No matter how you look at it, the number must be divisible by 10, anything else would just look weird. So the number needs to be big enough that we can insert new lines in between, but not too big so that it gets unmanageable. Then most people look at 10,000 and say who needs to insert 9,999 lines between two lines on an order. But we know that we have to halve each time, so in fact with 10,000 we can only actually insert 13 lines in between two lines ***. 1,000 allows 8 lines and 100,000 allows 16. so 10,000 is a good compromise. In reality though its very often that 13 lines is not enough.

In the end its a good design that is simple and works.



*** go on try it ... you know you want to.

DaveT

David Singleton wrote:

But we know that we have to halve each time, so in fact with 10,000 we can only actually insert 13 lines in between two lines ***. *** go on try it ... you know you want to.

Not 100% true - yes 13 lines straight inserts but you can still insert lines between the first and second inserted lines etc so in theory (and not very practical) you can insert the 9,999 lines

David_Singleton

DaveT wrote:

Not 100% true - yes 13 lines straight inserts but you can still insert lines between the first and second inserted lines etc so in theory (and not very practical) you can insert the 9,999 lines

as I said ...

David Singleton wrote:

go on try it ... you know you want to.

you will find that I am right, and that it's 13.

DaveT

Hi David,

I did and successful inserted 20-30 lines. Straight insert between 10000 and 20000 gives line numbers

15000, 12500, 11250, 10625, 10312, 10156, 10078, 10039, 10019, 10009, 10004, 10002, 10001
this is the 13 lines but then you can insert between the first inserted line and the second line giving another 13 line

17500, 18750, 19375, 19687, 19843, 19921, 19960, 19980, 19990, 19995, 19997, 19998, 19999

You can then insert between any of these line with a gap.

So I stand over my original statement:

DaveT wrote:

Not 100% true - yes 13 lines straight inserts but you can still insert lines between the first and second inserted lines etc so in theory (and not very practical) you can insert the 9,999 lines

as you say "go on try it ... you know you want to."

David_Singleton

Yes of course you can keep do this, BUT I am answering the question of why 10,000. 8)

davmac1

Does this mean superstitious people should not insert lines (13)? Especially never on Fridays?