---
id: multi-user/dashboards-id-is-a-global-primary-key-and-ids
title: "`dashboards.id` is a global primary key, and ids are `slugify(name)`"
theme: multi-user
status: open
created: 2026-08-20
date_source: assumed
order: 10
---

**`dashboards.id` is a global primary key, and ids are `slugify(name)`.** Two accounts cannot
both have a dashboard named "Home". Reachable today: six accounts exist. The recommendation on
the table is a composite PK `(user_id, id)` — it matches the `uq_dashboards_user_id` index
already there and keeps every stored `ws-layout-<id>` address valid, which uuid ids would not.
Note the drizzle composite-PK re-diff quirk in `databases/CLAUDE.md`. Full analysis in
`docs/workspace-panel-todo.md` §3.