Questions tagged [special-characters]
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Preventing special characters in column
I'm looking for a validating formula, that should be applied to the first column of my list (an ID column). I would like to prevent users typing special characters, like: '.', ':', '?' and so on.. I'...
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How to enter an ellipsis (Unicode 0x2026) in a MS Teams chat?
In most programs you can enter the ellipsis sign (three horizontal dots …) by pressing alt+ctrl+.. Not in MS teams. I neither found an autocorrection to replace three normal dots automatically. And ...
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SPD Workflow generated email showing 27;#
I've created a workflow which auto-generates an email. I'm using "Add or change lookup" to provide information to the "To:" line and to the body of the email (e.g. [%Current Item: ...
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Sharepoint / OneDrive improper recognition of Tibetan / Choekey / Dzongkha filenames
File names with international characters (UTF-8) are accepted by Sharepoint libraries / OneDrive. However, for Tibetan/Choekey/Dzongkha script, they seem to be saved improperly in the backend, and the ...
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How do I search for ü using the search api
I have been trying to search for ü in the title field of documents using the search api. It doesn't return any results. https://mysite.domain.com/_api/search/query?querytext='Title:"ü"'&sourceid='...
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Get a File Which Contains Turkish Characters
I am using Java with Rest api to get file from Sharepoint online. It is okay but if the file contains Turkish character i can't get it. If the file name is "test.pfd" , i can open the file but the ...
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Using ampersand's (&) in JSON column formatting
I am trying to use JSON to format a "Person" column in a Sharepoint list with an email action button. I would like the email to contain a link to the Sharepoint list item in question, but the link ...
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How can I escape special characters when calling SharePoint Search Using REST
I would like to perform a Sharepoint Search based on the keyword : "l'avion" using rest. However, an error is returned because of the special character "'" contained in the keyword. How can I fix this ...
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REST - filtering a value containing apostrophe
I have the following code: var requestUri = webAbsUrl + "/_api/web/Lists/getByTitle('Staff Directory')/Items?$\ filter=Title eq '" + currentUserEmail + "'&$\ select=*"; It works ...
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Prevent special characters in list item
I am looking for an out-of-the-box solution (no code due to the lack of tools) for preventing the users from inputing list items with special characters. It would also be great if I could disallow ...
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Strange behaviour with %20 replaced by + in text field
I discovered this strange problem when using a multi line plain text field to store a url. The behaviour also occurred in single line text fields. Steps to reproduce: In a plain text field in a ...
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How to GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl for Document Library/Folder name containing special characters?
Suppose I have a document library or, a folder inside a document library with some special character e.g. te$t. I want to do GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl to upload some file to that folder. But it ...
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Document Library URL and special characters
Firstly, I'm fully aware of questions/answers such as Which special Characters are not Allowed in SharePoint 2013 Files\Folders. When I programmatically (via C#, SP client) create a new document ...
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Pnp provisioning : Provision a 2 List Webpart Page using jslink with xml template
I have the big question for you : How to provision a simple page with 2 ListView Webpart? What i want : I am provisioning a simple page (using OneColumns layout) via pnp and remote provsionsing. My ...
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Illegal Characters in SharePoint List?
Are there any rules around what characters you are not allowed to use in a List Multi Line Column? Tilde (~) Percent (%) Ampersand (&) Asterisk (*) Braces ({ }) Backslash () Colon ( : ) Angle ...