Internal IDs

Tip of the Day: Users don’t care about internal IDs, hide them

IDs fields are a staple of data store implmentation. In many cases they are used to relate data across multipe data stores, but they are meaningless to the End User. Here's how I handle IDs.

• Don’t overload the End User which IDs that mean nothing to them.

• Do replace the IDs with the actual data values.

• Do “hide” the IDs on another page. I used a Help button in the example below.

• Finally here is the modal page accessed from the help button.