Subject: | Re: Number Format
| Date: | Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:39:10 -0800
| From: | Peter <peterspammenot@whiteknight.email>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-programming
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It is a timecard system. Employees enter the work order number and job
hit enter and they are on the clock. There are other features.
The problem is that sometimes they forget to punch on/off a job so they
have to be able to enter corrections, hence the need for decimals to
insert corrections in between existing records.
On 9/23/2020 1:30 AM, Tom Krieg wrote:
> What's the business logic behind this?
>
>
> On 23/09/2020 2:06 pm, Peter wrote:
>> I cannot use rounded figures.
>>
>> I use these numbers for unique ID ("EntryID") in the first field of my
>> table. I need to be able to insert new records in between sequentially
>> numbered records:
>> e.g.
>> 1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>>
>> May need to become
>> 1
>> 1.1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>>
>> Further it may need to become
>> 1
>> 1.01
>> 1.02
>> 1.03
>> 1.1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>>
>> Getting crazy
>> 1
>> 1.01
>> 1.001
>> 1.002
>> 1.02
>> 1.03
>> 1.1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>>
>>
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