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All ID's should be unique across the platform*
Explicitly and Publicly Confirmed:
Product and order IDs are unique across all shops (not to be confused with order name).
I can confirm that Smart Collection ids are not relative to shops - they will also be completely unique across shops like product ids. https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-APIs-and-SDKs/Uniqueness-of-Smart-collection-Ids/m-p/1220771...
Kinda silly the entire information on this still isn't explicitly in the api docs, it's as fundamentally important as explaining rate limits and shouldn't be left to assumption.
*afaik but I've never seen an shopify internal confirm/deny an entire LIST of IDs as unqiue this, either way if you didn't build the system just assume they aren't because "should be" isn't engineering.
This is an accepted solution.
All ID's should be unique across the platform*
Explicitly and Publicly Confirmed:
Product and order IDs are unique across all shops (not to be confused with order name).
I can confirm that Smart Collection ids are not relative to shops - they will also be completely unique across shops like product ids. https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-APIs-and-SDKs/Uniqueness-of-Smart-collection-Ids/m-p/1220771...
Kinda silly the entire information on this still isn't explicitly in the api docs, it's as fundamentally important as explaining rate limits and shouldn't be left to assumption.
*afaik but I've never seen an shopify internal confirm/deny an entire LIST of IDs as unqiue this, either way if you didn't build the system just assume they aren't because "should be" isn't engineering.
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