IPA Custom Business Class Edit Field

I have a custom business class in which I am going to copy in some data from a SQL table. In that SQL table, we use an identity column which always increments by 1 when inserting a record. Because this data is used by another application outside of IPA, I need to maintain this behavior and have no idea how to auto increment this field in the custom business class.

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Chad Dirst

Add field rules to your custom business class identifying the field as autosequence. Here is sample syntax:

Field Rules
XYZFieldName
autosequence

unknown

Thanks for your reply. I think that sort of worked. The field I am trying to do this on is not the key field and the error states "Cannot have an autosequence rule without SetName on a key field.

unknown

I actually got this to work. I created another custom business class. I need it to start at a certain number, so I added a couple of records 998 and 999. The first record in creates is correct. It sequences up to 1000, but then when I go to try and add another record, it gives me an error that it already exists and can't create it. I'm leaving the key field blank.

robert-canham

I ran into this. Look at KB 2126846. It walks through how to update custom business classes to use numeric sorting. They were originally done as alpha sorts so it gets confused with the autonumbering.

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