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Autoincrement of Project ID

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sharief sheikh
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I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, please?

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Zoltan Palffy
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so am I

sharief sheikh
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I am talking about the projects at EPS level. Actually we were exploring an option to auto increment by 10 or defined number whenever we copy and a paste a project. Just to have consistency.
Zoltan Palffy
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its already built into the program

1st project is lets say called base 

if you copy it then the autoincrement name wil be base-1

if you copy that then it will be base-2

and so on but there is no changing the auto increment for a project name whne adding only when coping an existing project 

best thing to do os to create your own nameing convention and stick to it