Every Fact Card and Group has a reference
- Short references such as
APP-1orTEC-2on Fact Cards and Groups - Curators can click a reference to change it
- Optional Reference column on the Fact Card and Group tables
- Show identifiers on the Views canvas from display settings
Names change and repeat. References do not, which makes them the thing worth putting in a ticket, a spreadsheet or a conversation.
Every Fact Card and Group now carries one, generated when the record is created and shown in the card header. A Group and its Fact Card type draw from the same numbering, so a Group and the cards inside it read as one family rather than two unrelated sequences.
Curators can click a reference and type their own. Most organisations already have a name for these things, and the point is to match it rather than make people learn a second one.
References must be unique across your organisation, and can use letters, numbers and the separators hyphen, underscore, dot and slash. If you pick one that is already taken, Colloquial tells you rather than silently renumbering.
Turn on the Reference column in the Fact Card and Group tables when you want to scan or export them, and Show identifiers in a view's display settings to put them on the canvas.
Changes are recorded on the Fact Card's history page, so a reference that moved can be traced.
Import templates read the reference back, which means a spreadsheet round-trip no longer has to rely on internal IDs.