Console

How to navigate :

> Go to admin site https://<yourURL>/admin/dashboard

> Click on "Transfer" In left navigation

> Click on "console" under the "Transfer"

The objective of this Console page is to view existing UUID values and change existing UUID value of any entity that has a dynamic UUID value. There are two functions. Those are "Export UUID" and "Edit UUID".

Export UUID

Basically, "Export UUID" functionality is to export UUID values of each entity that has dynamic UUIDs. It's noted that entities without UUID values are not appear in the dropdown list. After editing UUID value, this export UUID functionality can be used to double check whether edited UUID value is updated properly.

Once user select relevant entity name from the dropdown list and click on the "Download" button, a .csv file will be downloaded with list of UUI values. The .csv file contains "ID", "Name" and "UUID" as the column names.

Edit UUID

Following are the dropdown values for Selection drop-down in both "Export UUID" and "Edit UUID" .

Billing	Product tax classes , Subscription strategies, Subscription strategies cancellations, Subscription strategies commission rates, Subscription strategies commission rates, Tax rates
Config	Closed days
Content	Emails layout ,Gallery ,Gallery items ,Global documents ,Homepage components / Products list ,Homepage components / Products list / Filters ,Homepage components / Shop list ,Homepage components / Slider ,Homepage components / Text content ,Homepage components / Title separator ,Media ,Themes ,Webpage
Products and groups	Groups of attributes , Product attributes ,Product filters ,Product filters operators ,Product rate plan charge prices ,Product rate plan charge tiers ,Product rate plan charges ,Product rate plan questions ,Product rate plans ,Product selectors ,Product selectors filters ,Products ,Subscription strategy overrides
Shipping	Shipping strategies
Users	Customer qualification values, Customer qualifications

Export UUID

Step 1 :
Select entity from the selection drop down that has dynamic UUID.

Step 2 :
Click on "Download" button to download the UUID in Excel file format.
downloaded excel file contains information in the following order

Name

UUID

Example

1	Test tax	298250f2-7470-11ed-803e-0242ac109302
2	QA1. Product tax Class	298a0fa7-7470-11ed-803e-0242ac109302
3	QA_Produt_tax_Class_001	298a1068-7470-11ed-803e-0242ac109302

Edit UUID

"Edit UUID" functionality is used to edit existing UUID values of entities who have dynamic UUIDs. Once user select particular entity that user wants to edit, corresponding entity values will be appeared in the drop down list.

Step 1 :
Select entity from the selection drop down that has dynamic UUID.

Step 2 :
Click on "Edit" button.
Then "Edit [Selection name] UUID " section will be appeared.

Step 3 :
Click on plus sign which is shown in the above screenshot.

Then, "choice" dropdown and "value" checkbox will be displayed.

Step 4 :
Here user can select any choice of entity value.
Then user can enter new UUID number in the value text field.

Step 5 :
Click on Update button.
Then success banner will be displayed on top of the page.

An error message can be seen due to the following validation :

User cannot enter existing UUID or similar UUID values
Same entity name (in the choice dropdown) cannot be chosen to update.

Step 6 :
In order to verify that UUID value has been changed, user can export the relevant UUID values of that entity.
Therefore, go to Export UUID section and select the same entity in the "Selection" dropdown.
Click on "Download" button.

Step 7 :
Once the downloaded file is opened, it will display updated UUID value for the relevant entity.

FAQ

Does it allow only limited number of letters to enter as UUID ?

The uuid is a value represented as an hexadecimal number, only number and a, b, c, d, e and f are allowed.