What is the 'key' on avatar profiles?
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Conifer Dada
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02-05-2010 10:07
OK - here's a question that has nothing to do with the forum closing down....
What is the key on our profiles that consists of a long string of numbers and letters?
And why is it now displayed on peoples' profiles?
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Malia Writer
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02-05-2010 10:15
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Theriouthly... it's the unique identifier for your AV, other items have them too, called the UUID. Scripts can use them.
I think whether they show in the profile or not depends on which viewer you are using...?
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Damien1 Thorne
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02-05-2010 10:15
From: Conifer Dada OK - here's a question that has nothing to do with the forum closing down....
What is the key on our profiles that consists of a long string of numbers and letters?
And why is it now displayed on peoples' profiles? That is your UUID. It distinguishes that avatar from any other object in sl. If you say have a script that is designed to work only for the owner of an object, the script needs the UUID to see if you are allowed to use the object. |
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Ciaran Laval
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02-05-2010 10:16
It shows on the website, it's your unique identifier. Scripts can use it.
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Brenda Connolly
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02-05-2010 10:16
It's also how LL will target you for mind altering Corporate Advertising Indoctrination.
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Qie Niangao
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02-05-2010 10:44
From: Malia Writer I think whether they show in the profile or not depends on which viewer you are using...? Yes. I believe Emerald shows it; the standard viewer and Snowglobe do not, nor do most of the third party viewers. Without a script, it's pretty useless information, but as others have said, it's bread and butter to scripts. It's worth noting, however, that for the vast majority of applications, a script figures out the UUID (or "key"  based on interaction with a user, or with objects owned or created by somebody of interest. Once in a great while, a script will need to do something like IM or send inventory to somebody with whom it has never interacted before to get their key; in those cases, the script must either look up the key in an external "name2key" database, or have it supplied manually--the one place where showing that info in the Profile might be helpful. Search/All also shows the key as part of the URL of a resident's webpage (for accounts that have webpages), so all told, the viewer feature isn't adding all that much value.
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Malia Writer
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02-05-2010 11:04
Yay! I may not know doodly compared to Qie, but I got the first answer! Woohoo!!!!
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02-05-2010 12:09
the reason it's used to identify you is that in computing terms it's a smaller and of a fixed size, making it an easier reference to the unique individual it's attached to.
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Conifer Dada
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02-05-2010 15:50
Thanks for answers. I guessed it must be something like that. Now I know for sure.
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