I would like to set up a SN Mask to use a Jullian date for a specific part and customer.
Where are you getting stuck? That info might help other help you.
what process for defining the jullian date in the sn mask work for you guys
Are you trying to autogenerate a SN with the Julian date as part of it?
For example: The mask (for a Generation type) of : <YYYY><M><D>##### would produce S/N’s like:
2018122700001, 2018122700002, 2018122700003, 2018122700004, … today
and then tomorrow’s would be:
2018122800001, 2018122800002, 2018122800003, 2018122800004, …
Do you want them too look like:
today’s(12/27/18): 836100001, 836100002, 836100003, …
tomorrow’s: 836200001, 836200002, 836200003, …
(1/1/2019): 900100001, 900100002, 900100003, …
yes that is what we are looking for and this would be only for a specific part number.
so are mask would look like 8362####
But just for S/N’s generated today, correct? And then tomorrow’s would be different?
You might be able to make a BPM to update the SerialMask.Mask field, and schedule that to run at 12:00 midnight each night.
Or a maybe a BPM on the BO that fetches the next SN, (before it is fetched), and tweaks it to the Julian date for the current date.
okay I will look at doing that it may take a bit to do that but will let you know what I come up with