How to obtain GroupIDs, FieldIDs, Field GUIDs, and UserIDs in Archer

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Article Number

000034306

Applies To

Product(s): Archer
Version(s): All Versions
Primary Deployment: On Premises/AWS Hosted/AWS SaaS

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Description

In some situations, such as identifying the object that is associated with an error message, it is necessary to identify the UserID associated with a user, a GroupID associated with a group, or a FieldID/GUID associated with a field.

Resolution

To obtain the FieldID of a single field:

1. Administration > Application Builder.
2. Select Applications.
3. Open the application/questionnaire and go to the Designer tab.
4. Below Designer tab, Layout sub-tab.
5. Below Layout tab, click the square expand button.

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6. On the object's screen that appears, select the column chooser button.

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7. Select the "ID" column.

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To obtain the Field GUIDs of all fields in an application:

1. Administration
2. Integration
3. Obtain API Resources
4. API Code
5. Generate Code

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4. (select application)
5. Note the GUIDs in the automatically generated API code.

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To obtain the GroupID of a single group:

1. Administration
2. Access Control
3. Groups
4. Hover your mouse over the group.
5. GroupID is reported in the bottom right.

To obtain the UserID of a single user:

1. Administration
2. Access Control
3. Manage Users
4. Hover your mouse over the user.
5. UserID is reported in the bottom right.

To obtain the UserID and GroupID of all users and groups:

1. Administration
2. Access Control
3. Access Control Reports
4. Export Account Data

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5. (receive an email to your account)
6. Download the .zip
7. See Users.CSV and Groups.CSV contained inside of the .zip file.