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Shankar S
Shankar S

Reputation: 51

Lotus Notes Formula - Generate sequence of numbers

I have two lotus notes views where in the first column I need to have a unique identifier that will be a number. In the first view, I want the number to start from 1 and then increment to, say 15000. In the next view, I need to start the number from 15001 and increment. Is there a way to achieve this using lotus notes formula? Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 584

Answers (1)

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz

Reputation: 14628

There is no way to do this with a formula in the views. The only way to do it is by adding sequence numbers to the documents, and that has been a topic of discussion by Notes developers for more than 25 years. There are lots of ways to do it, but there is no "best way". Andre Guirard put together a very complete write-up about this topic IBM's Notes AppDev Wiki.

In most cases, though, it's considered better to find some other way to meet your real underlying requirement.

Upvotes: 2

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