Custom Lot Numbering

Hi @stephenward03 As shown below, you can also provide Custom Date Format for the Lot serial class. 

Hi @steburri33 Please find the below link for details on the formats. Hope this helps you.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings

Correct.

You could try this:

public class CustomSelectorAttribute : INLotSerialNbrAttribute
{
    public static new string GetNextNumber(PXCache sender, INLotSerClass lsClass, ILotSerNumVal lotSerNum)
    {
        string numval = new string('0', GetNumberLength(lotSerNum));
        return string.Format(lsClass.LotSerFormatStr, sender.Graph.Accessinfo.BusinessDate, numval).ToUpper();
    }
}

This would require you to replace the dINLotSerialNbr] with dCustomSelector] on the fields you want to override though.

Thanks @darylbowman,
I was starting to think about ways to tackle this by using custom attributes to work around the existing INLotSerialNbr attribute but I’ve yet to try any code.

I don’t know if I can replace the whole INLotSerialNbr attribute as there is a lot of code in there and I cannot understand some of it. 

I was wondering whether there might be a way to let Acumatica apply the INLotSerialNbr attribute and then apply my own custom attribute which could either replace some of the INLotSerialNbr events, or perhaps the actions of INLotSerialNbr - removing the elements which have been applied and adding my own.

Does this sound like a plan which could work? Do you know if attributes are applied in the order they are defined?

@ChandraM Thanks for the link to standard MS date time strings, but formatting a date isn’t where the problem is.

I think you misunderstand. You don't need to replace the code. You need to replace the Attribute. Meaning that you can override all the code you want from the original attribute, but it won't have any effect unless you replace the Attribute on the field with the selector.

Hi @darylbowman, I understood, though perhaps my reply didn’t explain very well. 

I would replace the attribute but the INLotSerialNbr attribute does loads of work and I’ll need to keep the vast majority of this. If I replace the INLotSerialNbr attribute with my own custom attribute then I think I’d need to copy and maintain lots of code which I don’t understand in order to keep the LotSerialNo field working correctly. I only want to change one small method in the attribute so this feels like a lot of work. 

My beginning of an idea was to leave the INLotSerialNbr in place, but somehow add/append a custom attribute which would somehow reverse some of what the INLotSerialNbr attribute has done, or replace certain elements of it. I’m not sure exactly how, but it’s an idea. 

You shouldn’t, if your custom selector inherits the original INLotSerialNbrAttribute, which the code above does.

aha, now I understand. I will try this and see what happens. Watch this space

Hi @stephenward03 were you able to find a solution? Thank you!