Custom ID for content

[maxisam]

I have…

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I’m submitting a…

• [ ] Regression (a behavior that stopped working in a new release)
• [ ] Bug report
• [ ] Performance issue
• [X] Documentation issue or request

Current behavior

Content Id is generated by Squidex

Expected behavior

Have a way to define Id

[IMPLEMENTED] Custom content ids

I am working on a very technical feature, which is very relevant for integrations and legacy systems and I want to share my thoughts with you. Current Situation At the moment, all Ids are generated using a GUID (Global unique identifier). This is 16 byte long globally unique identifier that is generated for each new content id, app, schema, rule and so on. A GUID looks like this: eb793bbc-2be5-48c5-9cce-8dbca5d57d21. I find this article very useful: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/…

Base on this pull request, it seems like we can define our own Id. However, I can’t find the way to do it.
Basically, I want to use one of the field as Id, so when I update it from SDK, I can use it directly.

Minimal reproduction of the problem

Environment

• [ ] Self hosted with docker
• [ ] Self hosted with IIS
• [ ] Self hosted with other version
• [ ] Cloud version

Version: [VERSION]

Browser:

• [ ] Chrome (desktop)
• [ ] Chrome (Android)
• [ ] Chrome (iOS)
• [ ] Firefox
• [ ] Safari (desktop)
• [ ] Safari (iOS)
• [ ] IE
• [ ] Edge

Others:

[Sebastian]

It is not possible over the UI yet, there is an open task for that. When you use the API you can pass over a custom ID as query string: https://cloud.squidex.io/api/content/squidex-website/docs#operation/CreatePageContent