How about in addition to number changers for accounts, customers, vendors, and items, you include a document number changer? Something capable of taking all occurences of a shipment, invoice, order, quote, PO, Receipt, etc. and setting it either to a user specified number or to the next available system generated number (without having to kick everyone out of the module to allocate).
by: Joe C. | over a year ago | General Enhancements
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Wouldn't this be a no-no for audit reasons?
absolutely no
That is precisely the point of having a number changer program. Something that could "tombstone" the erroneous number (filtering it out of finder searches) and point to the new number, maintaining traceability but keeping the system clean.
Would have to keep the history in a new series of tables. Complex. So loses from a cost-benefit perspective
It is helpful when a user puts some characters in the document number field by mistake and posts it. e.g. in PO Receipts.
at first glance a definite no no. However, if there is a permanent transaction entry assigning content of one document to another with a permanent audit trail, it will be a good idea for those typos.