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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">No, you do not need to transport the new prefix number to QAS and then PROD.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">You can retain the transport and mark it to never be moved, or you can delete the transport.</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"Bratzler, Loren" <loren.bratzler@nscorp.com></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug@mit.edu></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">01/17/2014 01:21 PM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">RE: Question About Prefix Numbers</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">I noticed that when I create a new entry in the prefix table, I get prompted to create a transport for it. Do we really have to transport the new prefix number up to QA and then Prod?</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Comic Sans MS">Loren </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><a href="mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu">mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma">] </font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>On Behalf Of </b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><br>
Sent:</b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"> Friday, January 17, 2014 1:07 PM</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><br>
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Hi Loren,</font><br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">When you have to set up a new environment (or after an upgrade) this is a great time to set a new (different) prefix number so that there are no task collisions. Plus, unique prefix numbers are a good way of identifying the age of a specific task/WF template.</font><br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I’d definitely reset your prefix number in Dev to something that is not already in use.</font><br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Cheers,<br>
Sue</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><a href="mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu">mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma">] </font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>On Behalf Of </b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Bratzler, Loren</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><br>
Sent:</b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"> Friday, January 17, 2014 12:32 PM</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><br>
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Subject:</b></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"> Question About Prefix Numbers</font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">Our Basis team recently converted our Development environment from client 300 to client 100.</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">Today, for the first time since this change was made, I needed to create a new standard task. So I defined the task and when I went to save it, I got an error message telling me the prefixes had not been defined in the client I was working in. So I went out to SWU3 and sure enough, the “Maintain Prefix Numbers” under definition environment had a red X:</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">So I launched the activity and I saw that there was an entry for the old 300 client in the table:</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">I then edited the entry (deleted and re-created it) for the new client 100:</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">I then went back to my new standard task and when I clicked “save”, it assigned a task number successfully. The problem is, I was expecting to get a task number up in the 400 range based on the last time I had to create a new task. But the task number that got created was 90000015:</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">I checked our QA and production systems and we do not already have a standard task 90000015 so I don’t think this newly generated task number is going to cause a problem. However, I am concerned about what is going to happen when I create my next task. Will it assign 90000016? We do already have a task with that number. Is the system going to be smart enough to find the next available number that has not already been used? Or have I created myself a big problem here by changing that prefix entry?</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Comic Sans MS">Loren Bratzler</font><br>
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