In the Fund Disbursements grid, we show and export award periods (Fall 2017, 022015, Academic Year 15-16, etc)

However, when a client utilizes the Updater API, it requires them to use the award period system ID, not the label. These IDs are found on the award period page in the system but are not available to export nor are included in the Fund Disbursements grid, the client basically has to preemptively write award period label-to-ID "translations" on their side so that they can successfully include the label's corresponding ID when sending disbursement updates.

From the original question:

"It doesn’t appear that the API ID value of 1 is a field that can be downloaded with the Disbursement API. Do you know if this is correct? If it is not a field that can be exported from AcademicWorks we will have to create a translate on our side to convert “2017” to “1”. If a translate is required, can you confirm that the API ID is simply incremented?" (The award period IDs likely increment by 1, but that is not guaranteed, according to Harold)

If an "Award Period ID" column were included in the Fund Disbursements grid alongside the existing Award Period column, it would prevent admins from having to do extra work in getting those award period IDs in on their side.