ExpressionUUID

ExpressionUUID

is an option for Cell and Notebook that holds the assigned unique UUID string.

Details

  • ExpressionUUID is managed automatically by the front end and cannot be manually assigned, queried or inherited as a typical notebook front end option.
  • All notebooks and cells have an ExpressionUUID option written to the file when the file is saved.
  • Functions that read the contents of open notebook windows such as NotebookGet and NotebookRead will not include the value of ExpressionUUID in their results. This helps to ensure that a UUID does not get reused when programmatically modifying notebooks using such commands.
  • The UUID designated by ExpressionUUID is the same as the one used in the first argument of NotebookObject and CellObject to uniquely identify a given instance of a cell.

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Query the ExpressionUUID of a cell using Developer`CellInformation:

Use NotebookLocate to locate the cell with the given ExpressionUUID:

Wolfram Research (2021), ExpressionUUID, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html (updated 2022).

Text

Wolfram Research (2021), ExpressionUUID, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html (updated 2022).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2021. "ExpressionUUID." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2022. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2021). ExpressionUUID. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_expressionuuid, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ExpressionUUID}", year="2022", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html}", note=[Accessed: 30-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_expressionuuid, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ExpressionUUID}, year={2022}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExpressionUUID.html}, note=[Accessed: 30-December-2024 ]}