Folder creation and access

Question

We have a business need to create folders to house documents.We plan to do this via a Process Model.
In the future, we would need access these folders in order to save documents to them, and to retrieve documents from them.
One way to do folder access we saw was to store the Folder ID when generating the folder, and storing that for future folder access.
Is there another way to do this? Such as accessing folders via folder names?

csteward · Answer

As folder names are not / do not have to be unique, and generally locating objects such as documents by name is not scalable (you will see performance issues as your size increases), we avoid using any 'name' values to search these objects at all costs.

We always use folder IDs (and doc IDs when necessary), access is controlled by business data in the interfaces, who should view or update the documents based on data or group association, and never give users any of the 'browser' type components.

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