# Glide API - row id

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [April 22, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850 "2023-04-22T16:00:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Crossley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adam_crossley/32/24083_2.png) [@Adam\_Crossley](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Adam_Crossley)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/1 "2023-04-22T16:00:18Z")

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I’m just wondering if it’s possible to use a different column with a UUID string in the Glide tables as the rowID, instead of the automatic 🔒 Row ID column that is created?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/2 "2023-04-22T16:03:56Z")

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For the purpose of making API calls?  
No.

You can create your own UUID column if you want, but it won’t act like a RowID column. You’d need to add UUID values to it - Glide wouldn’t add them automatically - and you wouldn’t be able to use it to make API calls.

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Crossley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adam_crossley/32/24083_2.png) [@Adam\_Crossley](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Adam_Crossley)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/3 "2023-04-22T16:08:25Z")

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Yes, a bit like I would do Google Sheets by performing a search using [Make.com](http://Make.com), and then I could edit the resulting row.

I wonder if that’s possible with the ‘get rows’ call and doing a search on that to extract the rowID… Oh well 😮‍💨

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/4 "2023-04-22T16:30:08Z")

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> [@Adam\_Crossley](#):
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> I wonder if that’s possible with the ‘get rows’ call and doing a search on that to extract the rowID

So you want to pass a UUID to make via webhook → get all rows via glide api → match the UUID from your webhook to the get all rows → extract a RowID from the match

Is that right?

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Crossley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adam_crossley/32/24083_2.png) [@Adam\_Crossley](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Adam_Crossley)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/5 "2023-04-22T17:33:56Z")

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I was able to find a better workaround, the team with the app isn’t on a business plan so I’m unable to test that concept.

Instead, I just created a loop by sending a column in my action table with the UUID to a column in the destination table, then related back to the action table, so that I could create a lookup for the 🔒 Row ID and send it in the Webhook later down the line in the action sequence.

Seems to be working for me so far 😬

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/6 "2023-04-23T00:51:19Z")

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> [@Adam\_Crossley](#):
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> I was able to find a better workaround, the team with the app isn’t on a business plan so I’m unable to test that concept.

If you ever need to, you can have a business trial for 14 days.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-row-id/60850/7 "2023-04-24T00:51:54Z")

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