Does an identity field in a shared field group affect other schemas?

[aiya]

Hi,

I have a question about how identity fields behave in AEP.

If multiple schemas use the same field group that contains an ecid field, and I mark ecid as an identity in Schema A, will Schema B automatically treat ecid as an identity as well? I couldn’t find explicit documentation confirming this, so any clarification would be appreciated.

Thank you very much

[marc_stowe_za]

Hi

It wont. The field group is a list of fields and does not have the identity namespace directly assigned. So if you added a field group to schema A and assigned the ECID field as an Identity, assigning the namespace, it doesnt update the fieldgroup. thats held at a schema level. You should see in schema B, after you add the same field group, that the ECID field does not have an identity assigned or a namespace. you need to individually assign them