Unique Article ID

We are still discussing the best way to handle this. I think we can solve the issue of ADR filters by improving the naming scheme of the updates themselves to be more unique. (for example, we can call the Git application "Git for Windows" instead and fix the problem of filtering just for "Git")

According to Microsoft the "Article ID" is the following:
Identifier of the knowledge base article for the software update. The maximum length for this value is 64 characters.

We set this to the date of release so that customers can reference our release page here: https://patchmypc.com/category/catalog-updates (although we do not list the ArticleID on those pages specifically, we will look into adding that in the future)

any update ? do you plan develop this idea ?

any update ?

it will be very helpful

I was just talking about this today, and we are looking at potentially for future titles adding unique "description" fields intead of the exsiting generic description field or some other identifier. As this would require less of a change.

100% agree on this.

Unique ArticleIDs would also ensure updates can be filtered properly in ADRs.

Example:

I want to exclude only Git from an ADR

The only current way to do that is by Title filter, but using -"git" also filters out Snagit, Adobe Digital Editions, and TortoiseGit, so the workaround would be having to create 2 separate ADRs:

1. One that uses the -"git" filter,

2. One to capture the non-Git products that were filtered out

   1. This one needs to be monitored in case any new products get added that contain "git" in the Title

The same issue would occur with R for Windows, having to filter the letter "R" would be... involved.

But if the ArticleIDs were unique to each product, ADRs could be easily filtered using the products ArticleID