topic Re: special character as space name or content name in Alfresco Archive

special character as space name or content name

nick_l — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:51:06 GMT

I am using Alfresco 4.2.c, with default setting during installation. I tried to create space/content which have special characters in its name, such as ':','\', '/'. I got integrity violations: Invalid property value: Node: workspace://SpacesStore/96be7e83-86a7-40d3-933c-be1f31b1fc41 Type: {http://w

Re: special character as space name or content name

mitpatoliya — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 05:20:14 GMT

Unfortunately the answer is No AFAIK,

This restriction is specially imposed by Alfresco to avoid problems in indexing and searching.
Lucene has some issues with this special characters so if it is included in the name it will not be able to index it properly.

Re: special character as space name or content name

mrogers — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 05:40:43 GMT

And the backslash character, which is the example you have given would cause chaos. its the escape character or its a path separator on windows. Forward slash is the path separator on pretty much everything else. And colon is used to separate the namespace from the name.

If you really want to you can remove the constraint. The core node service will be fine, as will alfresco explorer. However anything based on the file folder service which depends on the path and the name being in sync will fail.

Re: special character as space name or content name

mrogers — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 05:48:35 GMT

Could you use the title property instead?

Re: special character as space name or content name

nick_l — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:21:45 GMT

any hint of how to remove the constraint?

Re: special character as space name or content name

nick_l — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:23:03 GMT

yes.
I tried with cm:title, which can store those special characters. But I still want to show those special characters in the tree view in console.