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Customer Auto-number Conversion
We are looking at moving our existing customers to Customer #s in hopes that allowing the system to set auto-numbers will more easily allow for importing our records via CSV.
The documentation says that if we have 5 customers, 4 with customer names, and one with a number "58", the numbering would go 1, 2, 58, 59, 60. This is odd behavior, but no matter. My question is this: We want our biggest customer, Lowe's, to have customer #CN000001. However, since L is halfway down the alphabet, how will this effect the auto-numbering? What happens when the first several hundred customers are numbered 1 - 500, and Lowe's is 1? Does the next customer start at 2 or 501? Would we avoid this by starting the auto-numbering at #CN000002, and