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I am creating serialized manufactured items and want to reserve the serial number for a particular shop order.  For the first shop order, for a quantity of 5 I put in a sequence of 1 to 100.  The system tells me I have created more serial numbers than I need and has discarded the ones I do not need.

The second shop order comes along also for a quantity of 5 and I want to create 5 new serial numbers.  So when it asks me the range of the serial numbers I require for the second shop order, the following issues arise:

  •  There is no easy way for the operator to know what the next valid serial number is supposed to be without searching into part serial history
  • When I put in the range of 1 to 100, the process encounters the first serial number I reserved and stops the sequencing process altogether.
  • I can use the automatic generation of the serial number but that process does NOT allow the operator to pad the serial numbers generated with leading zeroes.

Has anyone encountered this issue before and if so, how did you counter this?  I suppose I could use a prefix and/or a suffix when generating serial numbers but that seems a bit complex a solution.  THoughts?

 

Thanks!!

if it is just padding, you could do that with automatic serial rule, but after setting the padding, it will then go out of sync and fill up with an existing serial - still crooked - not helpful. 

​@Vernon Anderson I would go for a read-only Custom Attribute to fetch last Serial No from Part Serial History. That should work fine I guess.

​@Vernon Anderson I would go for a read-only Custom Attribute to fetch last Serial No from Part Serial History. That should work fine I guess.

Thanks Marcel.  I will look into that!

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