Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

RE: Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

yogeshc213832 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:28:15 GMT

Hi Chris

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I found one example and tried to do the same in the below way.

create function CustomerNumber (@id int) 
returns char(5) 
as 
begin 
return 'C' + right('0000' + convert(varchar(10), @id), 4) 
end

But the above function is not working in the appian clould database.

RE: Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

Chris — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:21:03 GMT

As Stefan suggests, I would let the DB auto-increment an integer primary key, then format it this way to display for the user. You can even save the formatted text back to the DB based on the primary key if you want.

a!localVariables(
  local!id: 2,
  
  concat(
    "INVREQ",
    repeat(4-len(local!id),"0"),
    local!id
  )
)

Or, with similar logic, store the ID value (integer) in a constant within the application, at the start of each request, use the Increment Constant smart service to increment it and pull the new value to format into the ID value with "INVREQ__".

RE: Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

yogeshc213832 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:36:07 GMT

its read-only field

I only want to create this on the database side.

RE: Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:25:25 GMT

Does this need to be stored in the database or can it be just showed to the user this way?

RE: Custom Auto-Generated Sequences in Appian

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:07:29 GMT

Hi there,

I don't think that is possible. Tho you can do it with plain numbers, with a jump too e.g. 10,20,30...n (after 22.3) but mashing it up with some custom characters will be not straightforward.
So you will have to check for the last data in the table, add one to it and then concat your characters.