If you are interested in Cumulus customization you will eventually need to get the “Unique Identifier” (AKA “UID”) for your Cumulus metadata fields.
Cumulus uses UIDs to identify the metadata fields since you can’t rely on the field name being unique. The name is also subject to change over time, and can differ between different locales.
If you have the appropriate admin privileges you can can see the GUIDs assigned to the fields by selecting Edit->Preferences in the main menu of the Cumulus desktop client, then choosing Catalog Settings at the bottom of the left hand pane in the Preferences window. This will bring up a page including the tabs “Record Fields” and “Category Fields”. By opening these tabs you will see all of the fields for the currently selected catalog, being the catalog showing in the drop list at the top of the page.
You will notice the metadata fields are in the form of a table and one of the columns is the Field UID.
Now there is a trick you need to know if you want to get a copy of the UID for a field. Obviously it would be a real nuisance if you had to carefully read and type the value, but there is no obvious cut-and-paste function.
The way it’s done is to double-click the Field UID value and this will put it on the clipboard for you to paste into your document. Be careful to click only the UID value otherwise it will open the field properties window, which isn’t what you want.