# Change format in EventID

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-format-in-eventid/43725>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, scripting, database, ignition80\
**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-format-in-eventid/43725 "2021-02-23T13:31:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Andrii.Randiuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Andrii.Randiuk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andrii.Randiuk)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-format-in-eventid/43725/1 "2021-02-23T13:31:19Z")

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Hello everyone)))  
I have some problem with event ID, Can I do EventID became NumberId format, but not that stuff as you can see on the screen. how I can do it? Can someone help me?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-format-in-eventid/43725/2 "2021-02-23T16:33:39Z")

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You can’t change the format of the alarming system’s event IDs. They’re [UUID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier)s and our code relies on them being such to keep track of. You could parse the UUID (it’s just a _very_ big number) and store that number, but your DB/whatever else likely doesn’t easily store 128-bit precision numbers.

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**Author:** ![Andrii.Randiuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Andrii.Randiuk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andrii.Randiuk)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-format-in-eventid/43725/4 "2021-03-09T08:00:03Z")

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Poorly! But thanks a lot! Then how can I display the Alarm number as shown in the picture?? How can we change the EventID display?