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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 08/02/2018 00:14:39

Hi guys,

I have just upgraded to 9.3.11 and all of a sudden I get some weird validation message everytime I try to save my Queries.

Invalid characters in Query name.

See screenshot.

Is this a bug? I have not edited my queries and I had a look at a query added after the upgrade and the  *.query file seems the same. And I get the validation error for new queries as well.

Thanks,
Adrian

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Olga Shedko Dynamicweb Employee
Olga Shedko
Posted on 08/02/2018 07:34:08
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Hello Adrian,

No, it's not a bug, it's a new feature we've implemented recently. Was decided to include these ('devil') symbols &,.'%+#"<>|:*?\/ to a blacklist as invalid ones due to errors they produce.

Your query contains invalid '.' symbol, so you are getting validation message. 

Best wishes

Olga | QA

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 08/02/2018 09:08:14
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Hi Olga, Thank you for the answer. It seems that you are analyzing the name including the extension of the file. My queries have only letters in their names. Not even spaces. The old one is named Stiri and the one I created from the backend is called Test. No special characters whatsoever. The filenames, however, are Stiri.query and Test.query. Probably that's where you find the special characted. But you probably can see that we cannot control more than the first part from the UI. The system adds automatically .query to any name I add through the UI. Thank you, Adrian
 
Olga Shedko Dynamicweb Employee
Olga Shedko
Posted on 14/02/2018 04:44:13
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Hello Adrian,

Yes, now I see the problem. The system automatically assigns value ".query" to each QueryName, and invalid "." symbol causes validation message on save. I've created TFS Bug 46130. Will be fixed for the next hotfix release.

Thank you!

Best wishes,

Olga | QA

 

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 14/02/2018 10:04:37
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Thank you Olga.

Adrian

 
Kristian Kirkholt Dynamicweb Employee
Kristian Kirkholt
Posted on 22/02/2018 09:18:50
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Hi Adrian

The problem regarding #46130 "Repositories: Invalid character '.' breaks Queries" has now been resolved in Dynamicweb version 9.4.2

To upgrade please choose this version from backend or download from here:

http://doc.dynamicweb.com/releases-and-downloads/releases

Let me know if you need any more help regarding this

Kind Regards
Dynamicweb Support
Kristian Kirkholt

 

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