**
If there are attachment fields on your form don't forget to update the B
tables.
 
Kind Regards Conny

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Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] Im Auftrag von Joe DeSouza
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 19:42
An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Betreff: Re: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID


** 
The key is you will need to know your system well.
 
If you want to do what you want to, you will need to know the different
relationships that form might have with other forms (such as association
tables if you are using the OTB applications etc), where the Request ID
is used in the relationships..
 
Off course you also will need to modify the corresponding entries in the
H tables as well.
 
It would be possible to write a SQL script to achieve what you want so
long as you know your system well..
 
Joe


________________________________

From: Rick Westbrock <ri...@petco.com>
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:05:26 AM
Subject: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID

** 

I ran into a problem today on a form where some previous admin had set
the Request ID field (1) to only five digits so after case number 99999
was created the NextID value in the arschema table incremented to 100000
but the form obviously couldn't create a case with that number so the
agents were seeing error messages.

My backup admin bumped the field length up to six digits so that agents
could immediately start logging tickets again but I plan to increase the
field length up to 10 or 15 digits. My question for everyone is what is
the best practice to go back and zero-pad all of the existing tickets
with five-digit Request ID numbers? It's not strictly necessary for
operations but when search results come up defaulting to sort by Request
ID these new six-digit request ID cases come up at the top of the list
which is not intuitive at all for end users.

I do have a dev server on which I will test whatever method I decide
upon first and I can delete records if needed as part of testing.


-Rick 



Single Remedy application server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
IIS 6.0 
ARS 7.0.1 patch 6 
E-mail Engine 7.0.1 p6 
Mid-Tier 7.0.1 p6 
Tomcat 5.5 

Remote Database Server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
SQL Server 2000 (8.0.76 SP 3 Standard Edition) 

_________________________________ 
Rick Westbrock 
PETCO Telecom Engineer 
ri...@petco.com <mailto:ri...@petco.com> 


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