Automatic Data Entry

[Peter De Berdt]

On 26 Oct 2004, at 20:10, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote:

> 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?
>

My guess would be Filemaker background (globals from Filemaker). I've 
seen a lot of Filemaker developers trying to do this when switching to 
another database system. It's not a good practice, that's for sure.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt