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Define autonumbering for a particular user in an organization, a user across all organizations, all users in one organization, or all users across all organizations.

When you first define an ECO, Engineering uses the following hierarchy to determine the prefix to use for autonumbering:

• specific prefix for you and your current organization

• specific prefix for you across all organizations

• specific prefix for all users for your current organization

• specific prefix for all users across all organizations

When defining an ECO, you can either accept a default ECO number or manually enter one. Engineering displays the prefix along with the next available number. If Engineering does not find an autonumbering prefix, you must assign an ECO number manually.

Attention: When creating an ECO, once a default ECO autonumber displays, Engineering considers that number used--even if you do not save your changes and create the ECO using that number. For example, if you begin to define an ECO called ABC234, and then decide to abandon your changes, Engineering presents the next ECO number as ABC235. You can manually change this number.

Prerequisites

   Set the ENG: Change Order Autonumbering--System Administrator profile option to Yes to define ECO autonumbering for all users. Set this to No to define it only for yourself. See: Engineering Profile Options and Security Functions.

   To define ECO autonumbering:

1. Navigate to the ECO Autonumbering window.

2. Enter or select a specific UserName to define autonumbering for a particular user, or select the All Other Users record to define autonumbering for all other users.

If you only have privilege to define autonumbering for yourself, the default is your username.

3. Enter a specific organization to define autonumbering for a particular organization, or select the All Other Organizations record to define autonumbering for all other organizations.

Attention: The information you provide in the Organizations region is associated with the specific user or the All Other Users record in the Users region.

4. Enter a prefix to use as the first characters for each defaulted ECO identifier for the specific user or All Other Users, whichever is currently selected.

You can define only one prefix per user per organization. You can define only one prefix per user across all other organizations.

5. Enter a Next Number to use as the of the base of the numeric portion of ECO autonumbering.

The combined prefix and next number--the autonumber--is incremented when each ECO is created. For example, if you enter 100 and your prefix is ABC, the first ECO number is ABC100. The next will then be ABC101.

Each new ECO number is defaulted to one integer plus the last used ECO number. When defining a new ECO, you can override this with a higher value. The next ECO number will then be one integer greater. For example, assuming ABC as the prefix and no ECOs defined using ABC, ABC1 is the default. If you have defined an ECO called ABC234, ABC235 is the default.

You cannot enter a prefix and next number that, when used together, exceeds ten alphanumeric characters.

See Also

Creating an ECO