{"id":161758,"date":"2023-01-25T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-you-determine-what-is-the-name-of-a-zone-is-with-a-given-id\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:51","slug":"how-can-you-determine-what-is-the-name-of-a-zone-is-with-a-given-id","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-you-determine-what-is-the-name-of-a-zone-is-with-a-given-id\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you determine what is the NAME of a zone is with a given ID?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question heard from many users is how to find out quickly what is the NAME of a zone, given the ID of that zone. The reasons for having the ID of a zone, but not the name of the zone may be a warning \/ error message displayed by ANSYS Fluent about a given zone (i.e. they contain information about the type and the ID of the zones, e.g. &#8220;reversed flow in 76 faces on pressure-outlet 3&#8221;).   Type the text command:  \/def\/bc\/zone-name ID   then press ENTER twice. In between, ANSYS Fluent will display the name of the zone between [], as in the following example, where the name &#8220;fan-porous&#8221; of the zone with the ID of 2 is displayed:  \/def\/bc\/zone-name 2 Zone Name [fan-porous]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161758","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4424","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-general-fluent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["1-24-2023  20:20:10"],"_btv_view_count":["1019"],"siebel_km_number":["564"],"product_version":["16"],"km_published_date":["2002-09-20T17:30:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}