Safe IDs across every environment
An administrator setting that reserves a distinct range of page-IDs per environment — so dev, staging and production never create the same ID, and you can move pages between them safely.
Part of
Type
Back-office
Reserves
Per
Set by
Overview
Plumbing for multi-environment projects
When a project runs on several servers — dev, staging, production — content created on each gets database IDs. Without coordination, two servers could both create ‘page 42’.
Platform IDs reserve a distinct band of page-IDs per environment, so IDs never collide and you can export/import pages between environments reliably. It’s set up once by an administrator.
Key features
Collision-free IDs, by design
A distinct band of page-IDs per environment so content stays portable across every server.
Per-environment ranges
Each environment gets its own band of page-IDs.
No ID collisions
Two servers never create the same id.
Safe export/import
Move pages dev → staging → production without conflicts.
Set once by an admin
Pure configuration, done at setup time.
Single-server? ignore it
Only matters in multi-environment workflows.
Pure infrastructure
Invisible to editors; it just keeps moves safe.
See it in action
One range per environment
Reserve a distinct band of page-IDs for each server so content stays portable.
One range per environment
Give each environment a distinct band of IDs so content created anywhere stays portable.
- Reserve a range per environment
- Avoid dev/prod ID clashes
- Enable reliable page import/export
For developers
How it's wired
Controller
PlatformController manages the id ranges.
Form factories
MelisCmsPlatformSelect / MelisCmsPlatformIDsSelect feed BO selects.
Why it exists
It guarantees page export/import (the tree JSON) stays collision-free across servers.
// Page IDs are allocated within the environment's // reserved range, so an exported page tree imports // cleanly on another server without id conflicts.
Part of Melis CMS
Explore the rest of the toolbox
Platform IDs are one of the CMS back-office tools — here are the others.
Move content between environments, safely
See how multi-environment projects stay collision-free.
