Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

[Richard Gaskin]

Claudi Cornaz wrote:

> After some more tinkering I fortunatly solved the formattedWidth
> problem.
> Apparently you have to be on the card containing the field to get
> the formattedWidth/Height etc, otherwise it will return 0.
>
> This is mentioned in the docs, so I could have 'known' this.
>
> I am glad I got this working so I can continue.
>
> But still be warned and prepared to deal with the ID 0 problems you
> may encounter.

What are the "ID 0" problems?

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