Invalid file name characters in Enterprise – Home

When a file is created in Enterprise, its name may not contain any of the following characters:

Character	Description	Notes
'	Single quote - straight
`	Single quote - back
‘	Single quote open - curly	Requires Smart Connection 13.1.2 or any higher version of Smart Connection 13.
’	Single quote close - curly	Requires Smart Connection 13.1.2 or any higher version of Smart Connection 13.
"	Double quote - straight
“	Double quote open - curly	Requires Smart Connection 13.1.2 or any higher version of Smart Connection 13.
”	Double quote close - curly	Requires Smart Connection 13.1.2 or any higher version of Smart Connection 13.
~	Tilde
!	Exclamation mark
@	At
#	Pound / number / hash
$	Dollar
%	Percent
^	Carat
*	Asterisk
\	Backslash
/	Forward slash
\|	Pipe / bar
:	Colon
;	Semi-colon
<	Less than
>	More than
?	Question mark

This applies to saving a layout, creating a Dossier, uploading a file, and so on, using Content Station or Smart Mover. When attempting to save a file that contains any of these characters, a message is shown. The file cannot be saved in Enterprise until the character is removed.

Note: Configuring the list of invalid characters is not possible.

Elvis integration

Another way of adding files to Enterprise is by adding them from Elvis.

However, fewer characters are considered to be invalid in Elvis than in Enterprise. When a file is added from Elvis to Enterprise therefore, the name of the file in Elvis is adjusted by removing those characters that are invalid in Enterprise.

Document history

4 March 2020: Turned the list of characters into a table of characters including a description.
4 March 2020: Added information of restricted characters for Smart Connection 13.1.2.

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Elvis integration

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