I feel like I am understanding most of what glide offers (and how I would use it) except now the Unique Identifier. Can someone give me the basic explanation on what it is/does but most of all why I would use it in the most basic way? I have read the announcement and the tweet but am not real sure…

For me I have a sheet of students and another sheet with tests. Right now I use their name for the relation between sheets. If for some reason I need to change the students name (misspelled initially, or some other change required), on the main students sheet, then I would break the relation to th…

But, can I use this Unique ID when I’m adding a new test, for example, without using form and special values, but just using a direct new test and a choice component? The question is: can I use choice component to choose a name, but in back end it put the Unique ID to create a relation? I have this…

@marcovrj Currently no, but there may be a workaround depending on your situation. [image] Choice Component - allow key display pairs Feature Requests I’m continuing here from the UUID thread. I would love a hidden Value along with the visible Item in the choice list (a…

Need Plain English Explanation of Unique identifier

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Jeff_Hager November 15, 2019, 8:03pm 4

@marcovrj Currently no, but there may be a workaround depending on your situation.

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Need Plain English Explanation of Unique identifier

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