Usethis to correlate with other media entries produced by the same participant. For example, a participant with multiple devices active in the same conference.
The user must construct the resource name from this field to create a Meet API reference.
Format:participants/{participant}
You can retrieve the conference record usingthis guideand use the conference record to construct the participant name in the format ofconferenceRecords/{conference_record}/participants/{participant}.
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For example, a participant with multiple devices active in the same conference.\n\nUnused for now.\n\n\n**See also:**\n[Meet REST API: conferenceRecords.participants](https://developers.google.com/meet/api/reference/rest/v2/conferenceRecords.participants) \n\n### participant_id\n\n```c++\nint32_t meet::Participant::participant_id\n``` \nNumeric ID for the participant.\n\nWill eventually be deprecated in favor of `name`. \n\n### participant_key\n\n```c++\nstd::optional\u003c std::string \u003e meet::Participant::participant_key\n``` \n[Participant](/workspace/meet/media-api/reference/cpp/struct/meet/participant#structmeet_1_1_participant) key of associated participant.\n\nThe user must construct the resource name from this field to create a Meet API reference.\n\n\n**Format:**\n`participants/{participant}`\n\nYou can retrieve the conference record using [this guide](https://developers.google.com/meet/api/guides/conferences) and use the conference record to construct the participant name in the format of `conferenceRecords/{conference_record}/participants/{participant}`.\n\n\n**See also:**\n[Meet REST API: Work with conferences](https://developers.google.com/meet/api/guides/conferences) \n\n### phone_user\n\n```c++\nstd::optional\u003c PhoneUser \u003e meet::Participant::phone_user\n``` \n\n### signed_in_user\n\n```c++\nstd::optional\u003c SignedInUser \u003e meet::Participant::signed_in_user\n``` \n\n### type\n\n```c++\nType meet::Participant::type\n``` \nThe type of participant.\n\nThis is used to determine which of the following fields are populated."]]
