My instruction read:
The id value (an 8 digit number) of the customer who has booked this. Note that for this application, you should assume that customers and CSRs know their customer ids. The system you are writing does not interact with these numbers, rather it simply records them. If this field is all blanks, the record is available for sale.
Right now, when the user decides to book a particular contractor the ID value is automatically generated for them before the contractor is booked. After successfully booking the contractor, the random, 8-digit number I've generated appears in the JTable.
I'm beginning to think now that I may want the user to actually enter the number themselves instead of generating it for them. Or, is it even important at all that this number is be displayed? In which case I can continue what I'm doing.
What is everyone else doing?
Rich