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accessing Publisher Data from different studios

The playfab portal itself refers to the term 'Studio' but some of the literature keeps referring to 'Publisher'. For example look at the 'Publisher Data' section in the following article:-

https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/building-blocks

So I guess publisher is identified by a playfab login account, that can have multiple 'studios' and each of the studios can have multiple 'titles'. Does that sound correct? If so, 'Publisher Data' can be accessible from any game belonging to any studio of the publisher?

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The "Publisher" in that context refers to the Publisher ID, which is determined by the studio by default. The structure is that you create studios in PlayFab. Each studio has a default Publisher ID, which determines the "namespace" for the master player record (where the sign-in credentials live) and any player publisher data. Each studio can have multiple titles, which are the backend for specific games/apps.

So yes, the design is that player publisher data is accessible by all titles in a studio, for that player account.

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sort of confused, to simplify it again -- can we just say that even though we create multiple studios from the same login account, each studio will continue to have its own 'Publisher Id' ?

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Each Studio that you create, using a developer account in PlayFab, will have a different Publisher ID, yes. Publisher-level data is shareable across titles in the same Studio. So, "player publisher data" may be accessed for the player across the titles in the studio, and "publisher data" is a single shared data space for the titles in that studio.

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