What is Automatic Document Numbering?

This functionality allows you to configure a pre-determined document numbering sequence as a template that can be applied to your documents on Upload to Automatically number your documents.

This will help you to ensure the numbering sequence for your Documents is always correct on your Projects

How to Configure Automatic Document Numbering

1. Go to configure

2. Click Modules 

3. Click Publication Space

Click on the Numbering tab

Or

1. Under Publication Space Module click Settings

2. Click on the Numbering Tab

3. Select Enabled

Under Auto Numbering Click on Create New Template

1. Provide a Template name

2. Select the fields you would like to form the Numbering Sequence

3. By default you will be able to select Project, Company and all User Field's with selectable options

4. To add another field to the numbering sequence click the + Sign

5. To remove one select the - sign

6. To define separators between the fields select from list between criteria

7. The last field will always be the Sequence number. 

8. The sequence number can be configured in terms of

9. -Length - defined the length of number in the sequence

10. -Start at - defines at which point the sequence begins

11. Select the document types to apply this Sequence to.

12. Document types examples

-Manual

-Drawings

-Specifications

-Meetings Minutes

13. Then click save

14. This new template will now be displayed in the Auto Numbering section

15. How to use Automatic Document Numbering

16. After configuring an Automatic Document Numbering format as above, you can start using it during your uploads.

17. Upload your documents by drag and drop

18. On the upload page select the Document Type

19. In this example, Manual is selected 

20. This will now use the Automatic Numbering template configured for this type

21. You will see the Document Number change to the configured format

22. Select values for the other fields that are part of the Numbering format and the rest of the Document Number will be automatically updated

23. The Sequence number is only generated after clicking uploaded

24. If all the fields required as part of the Automatic Document Number is filled in on the upload page, click Upload

25. You will see the new Document(s) that are uploaded have been given a Document number along with it's sequence number.