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    Bakar is offline Novice
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    Question Format a field(AlphaNumeric)

    Hi everyone
    I want to set a field(Customer Code) as follow in my customer table


    A unic 6 alphanumerical digits taking the two first letter of the FirstName and the LastName from the other filed

    Example FirstName= Sherlock LastName=Holmes
    So the 6 alphanumerical IN THE CUSTOMER CODE FIELD will look like this=SH0001


    Thanks
    Bakar

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    RuralGuy is offline Administrator
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    This scheme is almost always unnecessary but have a look at this link: http://www.baldyweb.com/CustomAutonumber.htm

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