Open cjconroy opened 2 months ago
So, this is a decision for a collection? But also, we don't always catalog in order. Having it pick the next unused number would not work.
I don't know how to address this. I can only know what catalog numbers you've used at the point of loading, any number of things could happen at any time before that, I think any attempts to predict or understand any of them is just going to be a confusing failure. Am I not understanding something??
catalog in order
I think this probably means 'in some order that makes sense to a particular human in a particular situation' and does not seem like something accessible to code.
On the data entry screen, we used to have the option to auto-increment something like the catalog integer. Was this removed due to some good arguments? Or some database mechanics?