Project Number Generator

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avatar infield Pro Nov 11. 2009. 2:35 am #1
One thing I would love (love, love) is a project number generator similar to the invoice number generator. I currently generate job numbers manually for each job. The job number acts as an unambiguous reference to archive all information associated with a job.

JOB001 - descriptiveName

Where
JOB is a client abbreviation
001 is the job counter

I mentioned this once before and seeing the invoice number generator has pushed me to ask again.

Thanks,
-marc
avatar Erik Pro Nov 11. 2009. 11:30 pm #2
Oooo that's a goodie +1
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avatar infield Pro Nov 12. 2009. 12:29 am #3
:)
avatar Goran Radulović Staff Nov 12. 2009. 4:53 am #4
Interesting proposal, we will consider it
Goran Radulovic
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avatar Leon P. Dev Nov 12. 2009. 11:32 pm #5
I think that's an interesting idea too and I like how it would make it possible to know who the client is just by looking at the project number... but how would you handle duplicate client abbrivievations? Ie

APP001 - Application Developers Company
APP001 - Apple Computers

I think a project number would have to be unique just like invoice numbers.
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avatar infield Pro Nov 13. 2009. 12:14 am #6
We had this in our old tracking system. We had an abbreviation field in the client profile so it could be set manually. That way you avoid any duplicates.

We also had the numbering based on the job type. Print was 1000 series interactive was a 8000 series. So when we ran the jobs for traffic meetings the list self organized by category.

APP1045 - brochure update
APP8033 - Flash demo
avatar specialopssecurity Pro Nov 13. 2009. 11:23 am #7
Great suggestion. +1
avatar jurgenswaans Pro Nov 22. 2009. 8:40 am #8
what we do here is:

- three letters of company
- then number of total projects within our company
- then number of projects for specific company

so e.g. APP.123.002

Meaning Apple project 123 of total projects, project 002 for Apple.

I have requested this feature before in a questionary once, so would love to see a feature like this.

avatar infield Pro Nov 22. 2009. 11:41 pm #9
What is the significance of having the total projects in the entire company?
avatar jurgenswaans Pro Nov 26. 2009. 4:18 pm #10
interesting for statistics and archive and more unique looking numbers... just a thing we would like, but not needed of course if there is a different working mechanism
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