Season's greetings everyone!

I posted a question entitled "Automating Account Number" back in Sep 2004,
which was replied. I didn't have time to implement the instruction as it's
rather complex. My plan was to deal with it a bit later, i.e. now. But I
can't find the posting any more! (I saved the email notifications that
contained link to the newsgroup) I tried couple of other notifications that
were the same: gone.

Can anyone explain why this is happening? And anyone by any chance can help
me out again?

Much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Tony

Hi Tony -

I noticed that a lot of the older posts are still archived on the MBS
site... I'm sorry - but I can't remember the direct link - but it had to do
with messageboards/or community.... its the same thing as these posts here -
but on the MBS site... sorry for the vagueness =)

Kristina

PS
I want to go find that too now! I wrote a little external app that will
generate account #s for us - but the user has to copy/paste it into the
account and save it.

"Tony" <Tony@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F023B84D-78FA-4A7D-B60A-12CEF2B182F1@microsoft.com...

MS has cut back drastically on the amount of history they maintain on the
newsgroups. I'd recommend trying to search via Google on the group as it has a
longer history.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:05:06 -0800, "Tony" <Tony@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

Season's greetings everyone!

I posted a question entitled "Automating Account Number" back in Sep 2004,
which was replied. I didn't have time to implement the instruction as it's
rather complex. My plan was to deal with it a bit later, i.e. now. But I
can't find the posting any more! (I saved the email notifications that
contained link to the newsgroup) I tried couple of other notifications that
were the same: gone.

Can anyone explain why this is happening? And anyone by any chance can help
me out again?

Much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Tony

Thank you Kristina and Matt.

I don't blame MS for clearing space, though the puzzle is this clearance
seems to be rather selective, i.e. based on some criteria other than time
stamp. I could still view the threads dated back to May/June last year, and
my postings were only around Sept/Oct. Seems such is life, just have to take
it and move on.

Matt, are you able to answer the question though? The oringinal answer was
by a regular MVP, could even have been you. My hopes are high.

Thanks to you both again.

Tony

"Matt Parks" wrote:

Tony,

Sorry, thought you were just asking about the history being missing :-).

The only way to auto-incrememnt something like the Account Numberis to implement
a post-Callout. This would need to fire o nthe Create event and calculate the
"next" value and update the record. There is info on postCallouts in the SDK:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...rsion12sdk.asp

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:57:03 -0800, "Tony" <Tony@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

Thank you Kristina and Matt.

I don't blame MS for clearing space, though the puzzle is this clearance
seems to be rather selective, i.e. based on some criteria other than time
stamp. I could still view the threads dated back to May/June last year, and
my postings were only around Sept/Oct. Seems such is life, just have to take
it and move on.

Matt, are you able to answer the question though? The oringinal answer was
by a regular MVP, could even have been you. My hopes are high.

Thanks to you both again.

Tony

"Matt Parks" wrote:

Thanks Matt. I'll try that.
Hope this would be rectified in new release.

"Matt Parks" wrote: