ID.unique() is just producing a string of "unique()"

ID.unique() indeed returns unique(). This when passed when creating a new document tells the server to generate a new ID for you. so in the response you would get the generated Id

thanks I'll give it a try.

I did try inserting ID.unique() , and "unique()" directly into the createDocument() but neither worked.

actually, that's what I already had and it didn't work

i must be doing something silly - i'll try again

I'm facing this issue now. I wanted to create a user and a document with the same id, is that possible to really generate a unique id on the format that appwrite uses to I can reuse it?

when you create a new user, it returns a a user model response. It contains the Id. Now you can use the same id to create a new document

Thanks @Maniac_Fighter. If I don't have the id created yet, how can I set the permissions of a document when creating it on the server? How can I use the same id on all <id> placeholders on the below code

return await databases.createDocument(database, collectionUsers, <id>, {
      <id>,
      email,
      name,
    }, [
      Permission.read(Role.user(<id>)),
      Permission.write(Role.user(<id>)),
    ]);

First you create the user with id="unique()" and the backend will replace this with the ID which you use in your subsequent createDocument call.

return await databases.createDocument(database, collectionUsers, ID.unique(), data={"user_id" = user["$id"]}) ```