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I have a Quick screen which allows the user to enter notes (text field of 50
bytes) on a customer.  In the Customer notes dataset I have a sequence field
(sort item) in addition to the 50 byte text field, so the notes can always be
retrieved in the order they were entered.  I don't want this sequence field to
be displayed on the screen, I simply want the user to enter the notes and
automatically populate the sequence field (behind the scenes if you will).  I
have tried defining a counter field and incrementing it by one, and then in
the cluster command setting the field  silent value counter, but this didn't
work.  

How does one populate a field with an incremental value without having a user
having to enter the value on the screen?  I have scoured the Qdesign
Procedural and statement reference manuals for a clue, but no luck so far!  
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