Change the number format in InLoox 10 for Outlook


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Within the InLoox options in the area Project Number and Customer Number you can define the format rules for project numbers and customer numbers. Please note the following possible effects of changing the format settings:

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Format rules

Character

Data type and significance

.

Any single character.

\d{COUNT}

Any numeric (0-9) with COUNT digits. COUNT stands for any positive integer, e.g. 5.

\w{COUNT}

Any character string (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore "_") with COUNT characters. COUNT stands for any positive integer, e.g. 5.

\D{COUNT}

Any character string (A-Z, a-z, special characters, umlauts, spaces) with COUNT characters. Numerics are not allowed.

\W

Single special character. (A-Z, a-z) or numeric (0-9) are not allowed.

STRING

STRING stands for a fixed character string specified by the user, e.g. project, department_A, PID.

^STRING$

Expressions placed between ^ and $ must not be empty and must be of the defined length. The only permissible input in this example is STRING. Without ^ and $, STRING1234 or an empty text is also a valid input.

Sample formats

Format

Examples

.._\d{4}

right: Ab_1234, ?!_0000

 

wrong: 12-1234, ab-abcd

SAMPLE...

right: SAMPLE1234, SAMPLEABCD, SAMPLEab12, SAMPLE

 

wrong: SAPMLE1234, 1234SAMPLE

\w{2}-\d{2}

right: ab-12, AB-12, 01-12, a1-99

 

wrong: 12-ab, ΓΆΓΆ-12, ??-12

\W{2}SEPERATOR\D{2}

right: !!SEPERATOR12, 12SEPERATOR12, abSEPERATOR!?

 

wrong: !!TRENNab, 12SEPERATORab, abSEPERATOR12