Readable IDs vs GUIDs

I just upgraded gdotv from 0.9.x to 1.18.49 to check if an unexpected result still persists. However, the query results with the GUIDs make them near impossible to read. There's no way to check the result against the images of the modern dataset. Is there a way to get the old, normal IDs back (v1, v2, etc)?
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Thanks for bringing it up, it's definitely something i hadn't thought of! Keep em coming 😁
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Arthur from gdotv
hey @wiebe i think this is a gdotv related question you have here. We moved from numeric id's to GUIDs for some compatibility reasons, what you can do on the graph display is change the display rule for vertices to use a vertex property (e.g. name, label, etc) instead of the ID, this should make things a lot more readable in turn
Arthur from gdotv
in the docs (https://docs.gdotv.com/stylesheet-management/#vertex-stylesheet-options) the option in question is "Label Display Rule"
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wiebe
wiebeOP3y ago
Thank, but isn't that a huge issue when comparing results with the (online) documentation? Is this just for gdotv? Would a terminal to a docker image give the original IDs?
Arthur from gdotv
Yeah, this is a gdotv specific thing It's a valid point you're making though, i could make this configurable
wiebe
wiebeOP3y ago
Thanks, I'll look into alternatives, to use in conjunction with gdotv (which is great). Also for communicating in discord, it's quite a mouth full to post those GUIDs.
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Arthur from gdotv
Thanks for bringing it up, it's definitely something i hadn't thought of! Keep em coming 😁
wiebe
wiebeOP3y ago
Cheers!

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