topic Is there a way to have an ampersand (&) in the title of a datalist item in Alfresco Forum

Is there a way to have an ampersand (&) in the title of a datalist item

Scorpios — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:06:31 GMT

I am creating a custom data list and one of the properities is Dun & Bradstreet
They would like to have the title "D & B"

When I add the ampersand I get a parse error in the alfreco.log file

entity reference names can not start with character ' ' (position: TEXT seen ...<property name="CUandB">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<title>D & ... @113:17)

I have also tried "D &amp B" and got the same type parse error.

I am currently working around the problem using "D and B" for the title but wanted to see if someone knew a way

to do this.

Thank You.

Scorpios — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:26:55 GMT

I found my solution

The solution is to define title in the properties file and then reference the property in the section you add to the

share-config-custom.xml file.

EddieMay — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:36:27 GMT

Great that you found a solution and thanks for reporting back - really useful to other users.

Cheers,