Creating a simple Business Rule to copy one field into another field

I'm attempting to work around the use of an "auto-increment" field value in a PDF Template after I discovered a bug in release 11.0:

Portal URL: https://portal.sugarondemand.com/#supp_Bugs/87565
Description: AutoIncrement Field Not Available for PDF

My thought is to create a text field, and copy the value of the "auto-increment Number" and use that field in the PDF.  Since BPM doesn't have a "copy" function, I thought maybe a business rule would do the trick.

My attempt at creating the rule was to trigger the rule if the auto-increment number isn't "9999" but I can't figure out how to get the rule to place the number in a "number copy" field.

It's probably something basic, so I'd appreciate some help without flames coming my way.  Thanks.

  

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  • I'm beginning to think that copying the autoincrement number to another field is not possible.  Can anyone confirm this?

    The Business Rule area under the Return field does not offer the autoincrement number as an option in the drop-down. I am able to do tpopulate the Number Copy field with a totally unrelated field content and the simple process of applying the rule works.

      

    Bud Hartley | Cape Foulwind, NZ (and Oregon, USA)

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  • I'm beginning to think that copying the autoincrement number to another field is not possible.  Can anyone confirm this?

    The Business Rule area under the Return field does not offer the autoincrement number as an option in the drop-down. I am able to do tpopulate the Number Copy field with a totally unrelated field content and the simple process of applying the rule works.

      

    Bud Hartley | Cape Foulwind, NZ (and Oregon, USA)

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