Great I got it to work - thank you.  How would I connect it to a database to generate sequential numbers based on the year? so the form's unique ID would be "IR-2017-001" and then "IR-2017-002" when the first form was printed and savedthank you for all your help!!  I don't get scripting at all!!!

Hi Don, Thanks but it still doesn't seem to be working for me.  This is what I have in the script box: form1.#subform[0].Request::initialize - (FormCalc, server)var d = new Date():request.rawValue = Math.floor(d/1000).toString();request.rawValue = t.substring(4);what am I doing wrong?  When I previe...

Please help - I can not figure this out.  I need a field at the top of my form to generate a unique number to identify the request.I would like my form to generate the field based on the date of the request, but I might have more than one request a day... so for example a request generated in May of...