Re: Quick Syntax Question

[Luke <..hidden..>]

For a reason I know not, and repeated asks have produced no answer, no 
variant of a unified date string will produce a properly formatted date 
according to my local idea of "proper".  The workaround is this:

<?lsmb yy ?><?lsmb mm ?><?lsmb dd ?>01

although you may be able to do:

<?lsmb yy ?><?lsmb mmdd ?>01

I have never tried that, however, as I don't need the dd portion.

Also be aware, that the right hand side does not reset when the left hand 
side changes.

In other words, these are not resetting incrementing numbers--they are 
incrementing numbers.  So, you will not end up with:

10041901
10041902
10042001

as you might expect, but:

10041901
10041902
10042003

Which I always find annoying, and which has lead to me using very long rhs 
values and no day portion, simply so I do not have to go in and reset the 
default all the time.

It's on my to do list to implement a resetting runningnumber option, but I 
haven't looked into how yet.

Luke

 On Sun, 
18 Apr 2010, Ken Smith wrote:

> Simple question - what's the right syntax to get the invoice numbers to
> be in YYMMDDNN format. I've tried <?lsmb YYMMDD ?> and <?lsmb DATE ?> in
> the defaults and I find I can swap the month and date round but the year
> is always at the end of the string adjacent to the NN part of the
> invoice number.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken