# Get action guid

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/get-action-guid/1140
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [March 11, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/get-action-guid/1140 "2009-03-11T10:10:59Z")
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/get-action-guid/1140/1 "2009-03-11T10:10:59Z")

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Hi everybody,

I noticed that when I click on a "view" link in the html report, it writes an anchor with a guid in the address bar of my browser.

The guid corresponds to the XMLID of the action in the fbp5 project file.

Now I would like to reference to that anchor from a custom summary page.

Is it possible to query that guid in the action's script?

I checked in the help on "Action Properties and Methods", but didn't find anything mentioned.

Rgds

Richard

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/get-action-guid/1140/2 "2009-03-11T11:50:26Z")

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Hi Richard,   
  
 The script to get the action’s instance ID is ‘Action.InstanceID’.   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/get-action-guid/1140/3 "2009-03-12T04:16:40Z")

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Thanks Paul,   
  
 that did the trick.
