This is possibly a foolish question …so be gentle. In 99% of cases the Things ID in my URL is fine and dandy… but there are a few occactions where i need to display the friendly name for the thing. (only a few) so by default the SLUG will have the ID and i can then change this on those few situations when needed. WIll this ipact performce using the SLUG and does it make zero difference. ?
I haven’t noticed any impact to performance, and I can’t image how it could (although someone far smarter than me may correct me).
When you are using the unique ID directly all you’re doing is looking up that table and finding the record with the matching unique ID. If you use a slug instead, it shouldn’t add another step. It’s just looking up via the slug vs. the unique ID
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@josh24 thank you for taking the time to reply and confirm.
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I have no idea why we now have to use a SLUG in Privacy Settings. I was happily using unique ID (which IMHO is essential to enable Users to change their names, email address etc without losing any relational connections).
Slug is listed as BETA in the Manual so why has this been implemented fully and Unique ID been taken out of Privacy Rules? Can anyone explain?
Many thanks.