TOPIC: Reserved Characters

Reserved Characters 05 Nov 2018 21:12 #3172

  • LarryD
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I've been having a big headache trying to enter information to send an email with the scheduled report. When I re-open the rrd, a lot of the information is missing such as smtp server and associated fields. I suspect there are reserved characters. The body text is truncated when it reaches a question mark. There is a '&' in our company name which is used as an email signature. Is there any way to Escape these reserved characters or some other kind of workaround? At a minimum, there should be a list of these troublesome characters so I can work around them.
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Reserved Characters 06 Nov 2018 13:47 #3173

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Try opening Logicity Solution Builder (Run) as Administrator to save changes to the RRD file.
And use the following link on how to handle HTML offending characters: www.freeformatter.com/html-escape.html.
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Reserved Characters 06 Nov 2018 14:53 #3174

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Thanks... the escaped sequences allowed the '&' and '?' to work as intended. I think everything will run smoothly now.
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Reserved Characters 07 Nov 2018 13:23 #3176

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I spoke too soon! The Escape sequences work within the Solution Builder, but not when the scheduled report is run. It's apparent that the text is not being read-in as is, rather the Escape sequences are converted to literals before the email is sent which causes the text to fail at the reserved character. I checked the .rrd file with a text editor and the Escape sequences are written correctly. It's okay, I rewrote the email body without the reserved characters and it should work fine. However, I think it may be a simple programming fix to read-in the .rrd without altering the Escape sequences.
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