Line No. Configuration from 10000 to 1

manisharma31

Is there any way that i can configure the Line No. to start from 1 & not from 10000.

I want to use a form's Line No. as Sr No. which will be displayed to the user.

Is there any way i can configure but not coding.

Romul

manisharma31 wrote:

Is there any way that i can configure the Line No. to start from 1 & not from 10000.

I want to use a form's Line No. as Sr No. which will be displayed to the user.

Is there any way i can configure but not coding.

What for do you want to do it?
"Line No." is not a field for user. It's used as part of primary key...

Belias

and its 10000, 20000, 30000...for supporting the autosplitkey property: search "autosplitkey" in online help and/or mibuso to understand it

manisharma31

yea i know the autosplit property well avaliable on forms & pages & it must be the primary key in the table.

But where is navision picking 10000 from,is it in the .exe or what ?

Belias

if you remove autosplitkey property from the sales order subform (for example), you'll notice that the new lines will always be inserted with line no. = 0...so if it's the user that is inserting line, the line no. value is not code driven...
if you are instead writing sales line table during a process, you have to set the line no. by code

manisharma31

ok
so its in the .exe.
Then i need to write a code, to modify the line no. from 10000 to 1.
Anyways thanks for all ur help.

Belias

personally, i wouldn't do what you are trying: maybe there's a better approach to the business need you're trying to fulfill...if you tell us what is the request from your customer, we can try to suggest you a better approach.

The problems of your approach:
- you're modifying standard behaviour
- users will never be able to insert a line between 2
- you'll probably have problems of renaming messages (probably)
- users are free to screw the numbers on the lines

manisharma31

thanks.

I need to use Line No. of comment sheet as Serial No.

Belias

:? :? :?
the question is: why? i don't think that the customer told you:
"can you use line no. of comment sheet as serial no, please?"
i can't actuallay understand what is the reason for doing this: can't you use the standard functionality for generating serial nos.?if so, why?

mihail_kolev

why don't you just add new field for the user?? It's not so hard to evaluate it...

kriki

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kine

Definitely, it is better to add own filed for this than "hacking" the standard. Because if you will do that, you will end with question like "Why I cannot insert new line between existing lines?" and you will need to rename all lines after this inserted line to meet the requirement. Just add new field, add function which will go through the lines and fill the field with correct number, rigger this function on correct points and you are done...