Facilitated Management of Serial numbers: Difference between revisions

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[[D_ID]] is currently limited to 18 characters. The only unit who has 18 right now is [[HSC_WRS3]]; the laptop is at 14600ish. The highest local serial is 40500ish for STB_ACCU. It will be a long time before these roll over to 10000. This should not be a problem.

~~===~~ Negative and presumably decreasing serials ~~===~~

''' Negative and presumably decreasing serials '''

~~{{Discuss |~~

There is a temporary situation of [[HSC_WRS3]] using negative serial numbers. This is not the usual thing, this was done initially to solve the duplicate records (i.e. before and after covid) but after changing the process, the positive serial number sequence has been followed. No new negative serials are expected, so not a problem.

* Looks like [[HSC_WRS3]] ~~uses~~ negative ~~and possibly decreasing~~ serial numbers. ~~That would throw a wrench into automatic number suggestion. Is this a usual thing or just something to solve problems generated by the COVID moves?~~

** this is not the usual thing, this was done initially to solve the duplicate records (i.e. before and after covid) but after changing the process, the positive serial number sequence has been followed. ~~--[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 08:46~~, ~~2020 June 3 (CDT) }}~~

== Background ==

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 [[D_ID]] is currently limited to 18 characters. The only unit who has 18 right now is [[HSC_WRS3]]; the laptop is at 14600ish. The highest local serial is 40500ish for STB_ACCU. It will be a long time before these roll over to 10000. This should not be a problem.
-=== Negative and presumably decreasing serials ===
+''' Negative and presumably decreasing serials '''
-{{Discuss |
+There is a temporary situation of  [[HSC_WRS3]] using negative serial numbers. This is not the usual thing, this was done initially to solve the duplicate records (i.e. before and after covid) but after changing the process, the positive serial number sequence has been followed. No new negative serials are expected, so not a problem.
-* Looks like [[HSC_WRS3]] uses negative and possibly decreasing serial numbers. That would throw a wrench into automatic number suggestion. Is this a usual thing or just something to solve problems generated by the COVID moves?
-** this is not the usual thing, this was done initially to solve the duplicate records (i.e. before and after covid) but after changing the process, the positive serial number sequence has been followed. --[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 08:46, 2020 June 3 (CDT) }}
 == Background ==