Great tip @JeroenV.
The column ID is currently set when the column is created, and follows these rules:
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Column IDs are immutable and generated when a column is created.
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To generate the ID, we take the column title at column creation, lowercase it and add underscores for any special characters or whitespace, and then add a random digit to the end (if the resulting ID is not unique).
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Since the ID comes from the title at creation, the column ID will be the column type when you add a column from the column center, or a custom title when you duplicate a board.
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Because of the random digit at the end of the column, there is no way to set or predict the column ID of a column that’s been recently generated.
Hope that’s helpful for the folks who check out this thread later.