# Introduction
Related https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issues/15846
The root cause is that universalIdentifier is still optional in database
and fallbacked when extracted out of database to standardId. But all
`BaseWorkspaceEntity` and `CustomWorkspaceEntity` share the same
standardId for their default standard fields `createdAt` `deletedAt`
resulting in such compare result in dispatcher
```ts
{
"initialDispatcher": {
"createdFlatEntityMaps": {
"byId": {},
"idByUniversalIdentifier": {},
"universalIdentifiersByApplicationId": {}
},
"deletedFlatEntityMaps": {
"byId": {},
"idByUniversalIdentifier": {},
"universalIdentifiersByApplicationId": {}
},
"updatedFlatEntityMaps": {
"byId": {
"55e1568c-eb87-4b8a-9f1b-19bbf6042f3e": {
"updates": [
{
"from": "Deletion date",
"to": "Date when the record was deleted",
"property": "description"
},
{
"from": "IconCalendarClock",
"to": "IconCalendarMinus",
"property": "icon"
},
{
"from": false,
"to": true,
"property": "isLabelSyncedWithName"
},
{
"from": null,
"to": {
"displayFormat": "RELATIVE"
},
"property": "settings"
}
]
}
}
}
},
"fromFlatEntity": {
"universalIdentifier": "20202020-b9a7-48d8-8387-b9a3090a50ec",
"applicationId": null,
"id": "9c97c8bf-1f64-463c-915c-f68f41d3cd60",
"standardId": "20202020-b9a7-48d8-8387-b9a3090a50ec",
"objectMetadataId": "e9565126-8351-457b-b003-3ea4c6d253bc",
"type": "DATE_TIME",
"name": "deletedAt",
"label": "Deleted at",
"defaultValue": null,
"description": "Deletion date",
"icon": "IconCalendarClock",
"standardOverrides": null,
"options": null,
"settings": null,
"isCustom": false,
"isActive": true,
"isSystem": false,
"isUIReadOnly": true,
"isNullable": true,
"isUnique": false,
"workspaceId": "20202020-1c25-4d02-bf25-6aeccf7ea419",
"isLabelSyncedWithName": false,
"relationTargetFieldMetadataId": null,
"relationTargetObjectMetadataId": null,
"morphId": null,
"createdAt": "2025-11-20T17:28:45.474Z",
"updatedAt": "2025-11-20T17:28:45.474Z",
"kanbanAggregateOperationViewIds": [],
"calendarViewIds": [],
"viewGroupIds": [],
"viewFieldIds": [],
"viewFilterIds": []
},
"toFlatEntity": {
"universalIdentifier": "20202020-b9a7-48d8-8387-b9a3090a50ec",
"applicationId": null,
"id": "55e1568c-eb87-4b8a-9f1b-19bbf6042f3e",
"standardId": "20202020-b9a7-48d8-8387-b9a3090a50ec",
"objectMetadataId": "37263f48-6858-4d28-a6e1-5f7321e49c24",
"type": "DATE_TIME",
"name": "deletedAt",
"label": "Deleted at",
"defaultValue": null,
"description": "Date when the record was deleted",
"icon": "IconCalendarMinus",
"standardOverrides": null,
"options": null,
"settings": {
"displayFormat": "RELATIVE"
},
"isCustom": false,
"isActive": true,
"isSystem": false,
"isUIReadOnly": true,
"isNullable": true,
"isUnique": false,
"workspaceId": "20202020-1c25-4d02-bf25-6aeccf7ea419",
"isLabelSyncedWithName": true,
"relationTargetFieldMetadataId": null,
"relationTargetObjectMetadataId": null,
"morphId": null,
"createdAt": "2025-11-20T17:28:44.267Z",
"updatedAt": "2025-11-21T17:17:55.057Z",
"kanbanAggregateOperationViewIds": [],
"calendarViewIds": [],
"viewGroupIds": [],
"viewFieldIds": [],
"viewFilterIds": []
}
}
```
## Impact
- This might be corrupting label and description of an other standard
field of an other object
- Race condition on latest universalIdentifier assigned in cache making
the update sometime accurate sometimes not
## Fix
Will be fixed by the in coming work on applicationId and
universalIdentifier as required in database + upgrade command that will
handle retro-comp. ( won't handle description corruption though, should
be anecdotical )
https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/15911 ( handling this only for
new workspace, retro comp upgrade command will be coming just after )
## PR scope
- Introduce TDD integration tests as failing
- Added unit test to critical methods that might have been involved in
the root cause ( still worth it to keep )
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Co-authored-by: guillim <guigloo@msn.com>
