How can I find the UUID for a saved search in Sales in the Redwood User Experience?

Here's how to find the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for a saved search. This unique ID is required if you want to create a metric card from the saved search for the Sales Dashboard, for example. A UUID is a is a 36-character alphanumeric string that can be used to identify information, such as rows of data within a database table.

  1. Open the list page of the object in the Chrome browser. If you need the UUID for accounts, for example, click Accounts on the home page.
  2. Click in the action bar (callout 1 in the following screenshot) and select any saved search other that the one you're looking for.
  3. Right-click the page and select Inspect from the Chrome browser menu.
  4. Click the Network tab (callout 2).
  5. Reload the browser page.
  6. In the action bar, switch to the saved search you want.
  7. Click the Network tab again.

  8. Enter que in the filter field to filter out the queries (callout 3).

  9. Select the last queries entry in the list (callout 4).

    Screenshot of a part of the Inspection page in Chrome highlighting the items described in the text.
  10. With the last queries item selected (callout 1 in the following screenshot), click the Payload tab (callout 2).
  11. The UUID is the string of characters following queries/ in the copiedFrom: line. For example: 934fb7ec-658f-4718-b38c-95f8f5e6c431 (highlighted).

    Screenshot of a part of the Inspection page in Chrome highlighting the items described in the text.