Hi Peter,
I did something like this once because of a very similar customer
request that made perfect sense at the time. I handled it all with scripts.
If a document was deleted, I stored the number. When assigning a number
to a new document, I check my deleted documents list to be sure there
wasn't a number that I needed to reused before I assigned a new number.
There is some management of the list required, but the script has run
flawlessly for over 8 years.
Hope that helps.
Mike
On 11-12-22 5:54 AM, Steve Cassidy wrote:
On 22 Dec 2011, at 05:29, Peter Buchanan wrote:
So any further ideas on the gaps?
No. But further ideas based on the situation you describe.
If you were to assign the numbers only at the moment of sailing (or whatever is
your cutoff point for absolute final documentation), then there'd be no problem
with cancellations...
So what about using some kind of 'in-house' provisional numbering if needed
during the cargo manifesting process leading up to departure. Then use a script
to assign correctly serialised numbers at the point when you print/finalise the
summary document.
Maybe you could come up with some other means of ensuring that no cargo is
'dropped'. (In fact, I can't really see how studying the summary report helps
to locate any dropped cargo; you might want to investigate this process in more
detail to see what you can contribute.)
Steve
