Sequences need drastically improving

PeteMeyer · 2025-05-12T21:15:56+00:00

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In the real world, we work on multi-page documents, sometimes 100's of pages. We use custom sequences for labeling things and sometime, believe it or not, changes are needed. Right now, you can't move a sequence from page to page without jumping through hoops (flattening/unflattening which then lose the relationship to the sequence).

We need the ability to fill in a missing sequence without affecting any of the other numbers already used in the sequence.

We need to be able to set min/max on them.

If one is deleted out of the middle, we need the ability to select that missing number in the sequence the next time we place something. For example, if we place a sequence "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" and then due to a change have to delete "A2"….instead of just "Resume Sequence"…give us the option to "Use missing Sequences" or something so that the tool would automatically set the next placement to "A2", then move to "A5", "A6" and so on.

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Brandon Costlow

I'd like to add to this recommendation if you'd allow it… I wish we could assign a certain number of digits with automatically filled in trailing or leading zeros. Right now, if I want to maintain 4 digits to name wire runs on a job, I start with a sequence that has two leading zeros, then when I get to A009 I have to switch to a sequence that only has one leading zero. Even that gets to not working relatively quickly on larger jobs as A099 would be the limit for the one leading zero. Having to make multiple sequences to maintain a uniform naming convention is pretty annoying and would be much better if the settings of the sequence allowed for a smarter numbering system. Our naming is actually more complicated than this because we use decimal places for runs that share either a line- or load-side termination. For instance, a conduit may be able to house three circuits. One circuit terminates in junction box 1, while the next one terminates in j-box 2, and the third in j-box 3. If the main run is named B001, the other two would be B001.1, and B001.2, respectively. I don't expect the sequence tool to be able to handle this strange naming convention, but it would really be great to have the main runs sequence more intelligently at least.

Shaya Birnbaum

I would add to @Brandon Costlow's comment regarding leading zeros. It would be extremely helpful if the sequencing feature included an option to define the number of digits, so that with three digits, for example, the sequence would display as 001, 002, ..., 010, up to 100, and so on.

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