Maybe our experience will be helpful to someone reading this thread:
Q: How is that hurting you?
A: For us: Minor, real minor – from the beginning of our use and close to zero, now.
It’s one of those little things that don’t matter much, but one wishes could be better, because it generates user/admin questions, and, sometimes wasted effort investigating a missing number to verify that it was never created vs. wrongly deleted. After years of living with this, it’s a non-issue – and it was never a big issue.
I’d favor an improvement, but realize the solution is not so simple: How to identify the reason for the missing ID before using it?
· If ‘wasted’ during create process, then use
· If deleted on purpose, say due to company retention policy, then don’t use.
If the improvement was out-of-the-box, I’d say “Thank you – though minor, the issue has been around for over a decade, customers still ask about it – finally improved. Again, thank you.”
However, if I had to install/maintain/administrate a custom script, I’d say the cure is worse than the illness.
Can’t work on everything at the same time – this one wouldn’t make my list. Put in the parking lot at best – maybe look at if/when a major upgrade of auto-numbering is ever considered.
We had people that thought this was a big issue – time has proven otherwise – we’re still in business!
Dale