topic Re: Share Blog or Discussion Forum does not accept Question Mark in Alfresco Archive

Share Blog or Discussion Forum does not accept Question Mark

sselvan — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:54:09 GMT

I noticed that Share Blog post title (in Create New Blog Post) does not accept Question mark as part of the title. This is happenning in both Blog post and also Discussion forum post. Save or Publish Internally or any button, except 'Cancel' button does not get enabled, when there is a '?' mark is t

Re: Share Blog or Discussion Forum does not accept Question Mark

doiheartwentyon — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:10:17 GMT

I think this is because the title of a blog post or discussion topic must be a valid Windows filename for CIFS to work.
I agree it's not ideal especially for a discussion forum where it's natural to start with a question…

Re: Share Blog or Discussion Forum does not accept Question Mark

michaelc — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:32:47 GMT

I found it also excludes : and /
is it planned to keep it this way ?

Re: Share Blog or Discussion Forum does not accept Question Mark

mikeh — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:21:42 GMT

I think this is an unintentionally strict validation - I'll check & make sure it's removed for 3.4 if possible.

Thanks,
Mike