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Tech Tip: Understanding the display of UUIDs
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 14.0 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: March 21, 2014

When viewing UUID fields in a form, you may see the following behaviors aside from seeing a "normal" UUID:

Note: all of this information assumes that "UUID Format" is enabled for the field.






The variance in behavior reflects the Field properties.

  • If "Map NULL values to blank values" is enabled,
    means the value is NULL.

  • If "Map NULL values to blank values" is not enabled, (an empty string) means the value is NULL.

  • This means the value is an empty string:
  • If there is any value in the field, but it's not a full 32 char UUID, that's when you see "20" as a place holder.
    E.g. if the value is "abc", you will see . Remember that a UUID is made up of hexadecimal pairs, so 61 is "a", 62 is "b", and 63 is "c". The 20’s are placeholders where there is no data.