Automatic Data Entry

[Erik Mueller-Harder]

On Oct 26, 2004, at 11:50, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> Looking over the documentation and the archived e-mail, I get the 
> impression that there is NO automatic population of fields with data 
> in Valentina 1.0. This includes no automatic incrementation of a 
> serial number field.
>
> Is this correct?

I believe that is correct, yes, though the RecID field in every table 
does contain a unique serial number that seems in fact to be 
automatically incremented.  If records are deleted, however, there is 
no guarantee that previous RecID values won't be re-used.

> I also note that Valentina 2.0 is supposed to have the automatic 
> incrementing of serial numbers, according to one e-mail in the 
> archive.
>
> Will V2.0 have automatic data input where a field is supposed to be a 
> constant value?

Just curious:  why would you want to store a constant value?

> When is V2.0 supposed to be available in final form?

Alpha releases seem to be progressing nicely, but I think Ruslan is not 
making release dates, if he knows them, public.

HTH,

-- Erik