An automatically generated invoice number is one character short when you create an invoice in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

When you create an invoice in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the invoice number that is automatically generated is one character shorter than you expect. For example, if the current invoice counter is 1234, the expected invoice number is PREFIX-01234-SUFFIX. However, the automatically generated invoice number is PREFIX-1234-SUFFIX.

This problem is fixed in the latest cumulative update rollup for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

The auto-numbering schema specifies a mask that contains the following three parts:

• A prefix
• A five-digit counter
  
  Note You must add zeros to the left of the five-digit counter if the counter is smaller than 10,000.
• A suffix

These parts are separated by dashes.

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