From d04d6fc76be54144f46af357d8b3a313bba42938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ritt <stefan.ritt@psi.ch>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:38:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added note about automatically incremented attributes

SVN revision: 545
---
 doc/config.html | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/config.html b/doc/config.html
index ac60a52a..e78921b3 100755
--- a/doc/config.html
+++ b/doc/config.html
@@ -645,7 +645,22 @@ Preset Author = $long_name
 If the attribute should be locked at the Web submission, use the
 "<I>Locked Attributes = ...</I>" option. If a preset value is given for an
 attribute which has an options list, the preset value is selected in the drop
-down box by default.
+down box by default.<br><br>
+
+A special option are automatically generated tags, which are automatically incremented
+for each new message. This is achieved by putting a "%" into the preset string, which
+is used as a <i>printf</i> format specifier. A statement like
+<p>
+<pre>
+Preset Number = XYZ-%05d
+</pre>
+results in automatically created attributes <i>"Number"</i> of the form<p>
+<pre>
+XYZ-00001
+XYZ-00002
+XYZ-00003
+</pre>
+and so on.
 <p>
 
 <LI><b><code>Preset text = &lt;string&gt; or &lt;file&gt;</code></b>