Custom Access Code

[+rragan]

Has this field been removed and a guid is always used? I'm seeing more labs with GUIDs and not short names. I could imagine name collisions might be a reason for auto assigning a name but they're not very user-friendly. I guess the QR code is the answer to that.

[+elyob]

I just started building my second adventure lab and that Custom Access Code part of the process is no longer there.

Edited November 13, 2020 by elyob

[+Max and 99]

On 11/11/2020 at 10:35 AM, rragan said:

Has this field been removed and a guid is always used? I'm seeing more labs with GUIDs and not short names. I could imagine name collisions might be a reason for auto assigning a name but they're not very user-friendly. I guess the QR code is the answer to that.

What's a GUID? What is being Auto assigned a name?

[+barefootjeff]

1 hour ago, Max and 99 said:

What's a GUID? What is being Auto assigned a name?

 

A globally unique identifier. It's usually represented as a long string of hexadecimal numbers which, as the name suggests, is globally unique, and is being used in place of the Custom Access Code in forming the adventure's URL.

[+ecanderson]

Heck.  And here I thought it was Groundspeak Undecipherable I.D.

 

With the HUGE number of new ALs, I suppose they became concerned about how to manage requests for names already in use.  I wonder if anyone ever accidentally tried to use an AL moniker that had already been in play, and what happened? 

 

I wouldn't think it would be as common a problem for ALs, which often are named based upon location and the specifics of the series.   Not like caches "Where the Sidewalk Ends".