Is there additional value to the Script IDs you can set on custom list entries? It doesn't seem like you can use that as the key for

setValue()

. Is it just there so you can run a search on the custom list to find the right internal ID?

Right, so just there for a search key

afaik

When trying to set it directly via console, it looks like it tries to do some sort of lookup, but fails

I don't recall Chidi using N/cache, but that would probably be a good idea if you do these list-lookup often

Yeah it's (lack of) usefulness is pretty similar to externalid

^ That's the immediate parallel I drew as well

externalid does have the useful property of guaranteed uniqueness IIRC

Wouldn't this be used by SDF to identify your product's data, still allowing for custom entries?

I was thinking the same thing (if I understand you correctly), that those scriptids are important for uniqueness across NS accounts. Or so they can be referenced perhaps (via searches like in that article) for things like post install scripts.

I was hoping to be able to leverage that uniqueness in scripts without needing to search, but it would seem that is not possible.

I'm with Eric. There are so many very useful features that are just out of reach with scriptid and externalid. Like Upserts and Loads without searches

The solution in that article is nice. It could be improved by the use of N/cache. Cache would approach the speed you get with a hard-coded IDs in the hash/enum object. Cache would also help reduce governance usage and avoid hard-coded scriptid/internalid values.