How to change data-source path “local:/data/test” to GUID programatically when saving page in Experience editor

Question

We are using Sitecore 9 with SXA. As per my understanding, it was designed to have a path with local:/ for certain reasons. But, as per our business requirements, we need to update rendering with a data-source id as the authors requires to change the data-source item names frequently. So, Is there any way that we can update the data-source path (local:/data/item) with item-id while saving the page in experience-editor?

Answer 1

The below link exactly answers your requirement -

https://community.sitecore.net/technical_blogs/b/sitecorejohn_blog/posts/convert-data-source-paths-to-ids-using-the-sitecore-asp-net-cms

Its a little old post but the fundamental idea driving the programming logic for your requirement can be driven from here.