Can a BUILT-IN user ID be recorded in a table?

[ericterii]

HI,
Trying to record the Built-in user ID to a table in a formated “Number” Field

1. formula remain in red !!!
2. Warning issue from “Create a thing” : mentions that ID should be a number but right now its a text…
3. checking ID "number of carcaters indicates 32 Car !
   … though only a 13 digit are displayed in table column.

…hmm, thats a lots of issues, nop ?

is it posible to record that Built-in ID …and if so, how to do so successfully ?

[mebeingken]

Hi @ericterii,

Generally speaking, you shouldn’t ever need to record the id from a User, or really any thing, since you can simply store the actual User thing in a user data type on any other thing.

That being said, the id is a text string, so change IDUWEB to a text type and you’ll be set.

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[ericterii]

Ok, yes just did that, and display 32 digits now. TKS

So, hmm i m doing this ID records in order to retreive users’ records in a table shared by all users…

I have to deal with a situation when user A is required - as an extra work - to send some data (lets say a report) on behalf of user B and/or C…etc…
All users Data falling in the same Table…

In that case I guess that recording the datas “belonging” to its original user would imply recording built-in Id of user B… havent got here yet. but will see if that could possibly work.

…or do you know of another way arround the Built-in ID in that send on behalf of + retreiving each an everyone datas<-related->owners ?

[mebeingken]

My point is that rather than storing an id value, you store “the thing” itself.

For example:

You create a field on a thing that is of type User (in this case, I named the User thing IDUWEB and put it on rapser to match what you’ve done.)

Then you can assign any user (be it Current User, or any other user via search etc.) to that IDUWEB field on the rapser:

The benefit here is that you don’t have to perform searches downstream to find the user, it is just there for you to access when you access the rapser.

[ericterii]

I ll test that, though I guess Current user would refer to some “user’s name or pseudo”…
1 thing I d want to avoid is working with users id names…that can change in the time for whatever reason,
breaking the tracking of historical recording if so…number does not pause this problem.

I ll give it an eyes and see how it can be applied in that case, tks

[ericterii]

I tried this similar op, but I cant find how you can get just this short “Current User” value (blue)

my editor doesnt show such short expression, it rather offers "Current USer’s+Something, +Id, +email…etc…

Until i specify the last part of the expression, it remain in red.

[ericterii]

Oh, i see now, the table uses a “USER” field type…hmm…lets see…

[ericterii]

Ok, done, what I get at the end of the day with this “current user” expression …is…
the same user’s email !
tkx