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Set Current Value for Naming Series

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  • February 6, 2024

Set Current Value for Naming Series

The Naming Series feature enables you to set a prefix for naming documents. For instance, if a Sales Order has the prefix “SO,” the series will be generated as SO-00001, SO-00002, and so forth.

1. Setting the Current Value

The Naming Series feature also provides a tool allowing you to set the current value for a specific prefix. This is typically necessary if you’ve recently begun using BizCentric and have existing transactions from a previous system. In such cases, you may want the numbering series to continue from where it left off in the old system.

Go to Naming Series Tool

Setup > System > Naming Series

  1. Update Series Section
  2. Select Prefix
  3. Current Value

 

2. Error Due Series Number

If you receive a Duplicate Name error while saving a transaction, for example, while saving Item Price, you receive an error saying:

Duplicate name Item Price RFD/00016

This error message indicates that when attempting to save an Item Price, the system is attempting to allocate “RFD/00016” to that Item Price record. However, it discovers that an Item Price with this ID already exists in your system.

This error may occur because the current value for the series/prefix of Item Price has been disrupted and is not aligned with the actual current value. While the actual current value for Item Price may be 20 (or any number greater than 16), someone has set the current value for this series as 15.

To confirm the actual current value for a particular series, you should examine the report for the document in question (Item Price in this case) and identify the Item Price ID with the highest value.