Custom made Autonumber to show today's date

[hildemoseby]

Hi,
I am designing a database for work and would like my autonumber to be of the following format:
yyyymmdd-001
yyyymmdd-002
yyyymmdd-003
So, the date the entry is made(today) dash an increasing number starting at 001 each new day.

Can someone tell me how that's done, or if it's even doable?

Cheers,
Hilde.

[missinglinq]

The concept you're talking about is an incremental ID number. Don't call it an Autonumber. An Autonumber is a specific datatype in Access, it's a Long Integer and it's automatically generated by Access.

Here's the link for a Micro$oft tutorial on doing this very thing

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ac...550831033.aspx

The left half of your string can be generated with Format(date,"yyyymmdd"). The tutorial will show you how to generate the incrementing part.

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Linq ;0)>

[ADezii]

Hi,
I am designing a database for work and would like my autonumber to be of the following format:
yyyymmdd-001
yyyymmdd-002
yyyymmdd-003
So, the date the entry is made(today) dash an increasing number starting at 001 each new day.

Can someone tell me how that's done, or if it's even doable?

Cheers,
Hilde.

Assumptions:

1. Your Table Name is tblTest.
2. Your specially formatted AutoNumber Field is called [ID] and it is the Primary Key.
3. To produce the next AutoNumber in sequence with your specifications:
   

   NextAutoNum = Format$(Now(), "yyyymmdd") & "-" & Format$(Val(Right$(DLast("[ID]", "tblTest"),3))+1, "000")

4. If the last [ID] value was 20070820-034, the next one will be:
   

   20070820-035

[hildemoseby]

Thank you, I combined both of your ideas and think I got something useful out of it :)
H.

[hildemoseby]

Hi,
as I've never done this before, this is the code I ended up with using a code builder in a form (no autonumber).

Dim strMax As String
strMax = DMax("ID", "Register")
Me!HiddenCtl = Format$(Now(), "yyyymmdd") & "-" & Right(strMax, Len(strMax) - InStr(1, strMax, "-")) + 1

This works - sort of. What happens is that the date changes, but the number after the dash doesn't start at 1 again. So I get:
20070821-1
20070821-2
20070822-3
etc...
How can I get it to start over again????

Cheers

[geuvara]

I did the same of "hildemoseby", and I have the same result, but I wonder if I can add characters before of the date and the number and the data appear like this

NSR-20100604-1
NSR-20100604-2

Any Help?

thanx

[geuvara]

I did the code

Private Sub Name_AfterUpdate()
Dim strMax As Variant
strMax = DMax("fldcount", "tblcount")
Me!HiddenCtl = "NSR" & Format$(Now(), "yyyymmdd") & "-" & Right(strMax, Len(strMax) - InStr(1, strMax, "-")) + 1

End Sub

and I have the result

NSR20100604-1

but the problem now when the increment value reach "10" all increaments stops like this

NSR20100604-8
NSR20100604-9
NSR20100604-10
NSR20100604-10
NSR20100605-10

[arbabreza]

Me.ID = Format(Now(), "yyyymmdd") & "-" & Format(Val(Right(Nz(DLast("[ID]", "Table1"), 0), 3)) + 1, "000")

[NeoPa]

That assumes the last entry - in the order Access presents you the data from that table - is also the most recent. Essentially you're code suffers from the same limitation that ADezii's does from way back in August 2007. In fact it looks pretty identical - even as far as using Now() instead of Date(). You're better off using DMax().

[cactusdata]

It takes a little more:

NextID = Format(Date, "yyyymmdd\-") & Right("00" & CStr(Val(Nz(DMax("[ID]", "tblTest", "[ID] Like '" & Format(Date, "yyyymmdd\*") & "'"))) + 1), 3)

[NeoPa]

Yes. Well spotted. I did some work on this type of thing a while ago but lost many of my notes when my PC died earlier in the year :-(