There are occasions where you’ll want your documents to print an auto-incremented value when generating a new document. This is useful in situations where you need a unique number applied to every document generated from a given template; an invoice, coupons, tickets, filename, etc. To enable this feature:
- Open Your Template
Open the document template you wish to apply this setting.
- Navigate to Advanced Settings Tab
Navigate to the “Settings” tab. To the right of the page, open the “Advanced Settings” dropdown.
- Apply Auto Number
Check “Auto Number“. Apply a starting value to number to output. This system will increment this value on each document generation. Click “Save Settings“.
- Use the Variable
Use
{$_auto_number}in your document templates and other template specific DocuMerge fields (such as “File Name“). If you’re using a fillable PDF as your document template, you’ll use the “Field Map” to assign this variable to your applicable PDF field(s).
Note: when applying this as a Route setting, you’ll use{$_route_auto_number}. See: Route Auto-Number
