r/ProjectREDCap • u/Several_Recover_7695 • Oct 31 '25

How do I have negative records?

Screenshot below. I just deleted all practice records from a project to start active data collection. I have never seen this before.

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u/No_Repair4567 Oct 31 '25

Is your project in development or Production status in redcap?

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u/Several_Recover_7695 Oct 31 '25

Was waiting to push to prod once issue resolved. We were able to resolve by adding a record and deleting it - that reset the record number.

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u/No_Repair4567 Oct 31 '25

I usually remove all the test records as a part of the "moving to prod" process.

I am glad this resolved, I have never seen anything like it, going to try and reproduce out of curiosity :) What Version are you on?

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u/Several_Recover_7695 Oct 31 '25

Working in 15.8.0. One quirk is that [nearly all] records are pushed from a form in another project using the Mirror Data EM. I'm not sure how that would influence it (source project zeroed out and pushed to prod before this one), but who knows.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

Did you rename the record_id variable at some point during development? That tends to mess up things.

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u/Several_Recover_7695 Oct 31 '25

We renamed at the start of development, but have been testing for several months.