Doc Ref

A Doc Ref (or Document Reference) is an identifier used to identify most documents/entities in Stroom, e.g. an XSLT will have a Doc Ref.

It is comprised of the following parts:

  • UUID UUID A Universally Unique Identifier for uniquely identifying something. UUIDs are used as the identifier in Doc Refs. An example of a UUID is 4ffeb895-53c9-40d6-bf33-3ef025401ad3.Click to see more details... - A Universally Unique Identifier to uniquely identify the document/entity.
  • Type - The type of the document/entity, e.g. Index, XSLT, Dashboard, etc.
  • Name - The name given to the document/entity.

Doc Refs are used heavily in the REST API for identifying the document/entity to be acted on.

Last modified April 7, 2026: Merge branch '7.11' into 7.12 (5ca47c5)