Manual Generation

[mohamedzumry]

Hi,

First of all thank you for your great package. I have 1 doubt, how can I stop auto generation during creation, because I want to generate later

Let us say I am creating a Voucher, when creating I don't want a voucher_no, its null. Later when the user confirms the voucher creation teh voucher status becomes conformed while the voucher_no is also created at that time.

Thank you.

[EG-Mohamed]

Hi, thanks for the kind words!

You can defer generation with the current version — just create the voucher quietly so auto-generation doesn't fire, then generate on confirm:

// On create — voucher_no stays null
$voucher = new Voucher($data);
$voucher->saveQuietly();

// On confirm
$voucher->voucher_no = $voucher->generateReference();
$voucher->save();

Just make the column nullable: $table->string('voucher_no')->nullable()->unique()->index();

This is a bit of an edge case, so I don't think it needs a dedicated feature in the package — saveQuietly() covers it well. Only thing to keep in mind is that it skips other model events on that insert too.

Hope that helps!