Re: [ic] return value of autonumber or code at time of INSERT

[Mike Heins <suppressed>]

Quoting maillists (suppressed):
> Thanks again Mike,
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. I will keep it short.  I am not using query to
> set this data. the query is only used to update another table later on.
> I am inserting a NEW record.
> 
> This is the way I am inserting the new record with a form:
> I was once told that I need to set the value of "code" to NULL on the
> form in order for MySQL to create the new record. MySQL is doing all the
> auto_increment work.  It seems that MySQL is not telling IC what the new
> code is.
> 
> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_table"    VALUE="tablename">
> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_key"      VALUE="code">
> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_fields" VALUE="code">

If you have 

	Database tablename AUTO_SEQUENCE code_seq

in your configuration, it should indeed come back in $CGI->{code}
or $CGI->{return_code}. If you have not told IC that it is an
auto-increment with that configuration, I don't know what happens.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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