What are notice names?

Notice names are used to identify titles for internal tracking purposes. They do not appear in printed notices; they are merely meant to make it easier to locate notices in your notice table and communicate specific notices clearly with your customers.

Notice names supplement the unique notice ID for every notice. They are intended to be short, straightforward, recognizable titles that simplify the tracking and organization of public notice documents for advertisers and publishers.

Your customers choose and assign a notice name when they place a new notice order. If you're uploading a notice on behalf of a client, you will assign a notice name during the normal upload flow.

Yes! You and your customers see the same name for each public notice, and changes to a notice name will be visible to both parties.

You can edit a notice name the same way you edit any other aspect of the notice. Learn how to do so here.

Note: Your customer will receive an automatic email letting them know you've updated their notice. Please note that you should not use notice names as a place to input your order numbers or internal publisher IDs. Please contact Column Support to learn how to integrate publisher IDs or order numbers with Column.

Notice names appear as the page header when you open the notice details page and as a column in your notice table. They also appear on proofs, invoices, and affidavits.

Notice IDs are unique, automatically generated identification codes assigned to individual notice orders. Because they are a random string of letters and numbers, they are not as easy to recognize as notice names.

Conversely, notice names are descriptive titles that advertisers assign to their notices to facilitate easy organization and referencing throughout the public notice process.

Notice names supplement but do not replace notice IDs.

Nope! Format and print public notices the same way you always have. Notice names are for internal reference only, so they should not appear in the printed publication.

We also have resources available for customers. If a customer needs help naming their notice, feel free to share this article.