What is a Proprietary ID?
- Tim Peterson
Owned by Tim Peterson
It is not uncommon for a data template to have a column entitled proprietary_id. Such a column is used to synchronize data between a publisher's internal content management system (CMS) and TitleLeaf. If the publisher does not have an internal CMS and the proprietary_id is required by TitleLeaf, then the publisher must populate the column with a unique number that they have generated.
Note: The Proprietary ID does not need to be unique across all types of data (i.e., Products vs Reviews vs Contributors); it needs to be unique in the scope of the specific data type. In other words, a publisher can have a Product with ID of 1000 and a Review of ID 1000. But a publisher cannot have two Products with ID of 1000.