Defining ECO Autonumbering
You can define and update customized autonumbering to use as defaults when creating new engineering change orders (ECOs) and mass change orders.
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
For example, if a prefix is set up for you and the current organization, it supersedes a prefix defined for you 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
To define ECO autonumbering:
If you only have privilege to define autonumbering for yourself, the default is your username.
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.
You can define only one prefix per user per organization. You can define only one prefix per user across all other organizations.
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
Engineering Change Orders
Creating an ECO