we have a scenario where the user can enter the special characters in one of t

RE: we have a scenario where the user can enter the special characters in one of t

PhilB — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:47:18 GMT

If stripwith() etc doesnt' work, you could also use the regex replace plugin functions to replace anything that's not within a particular set of characters.

RE: we have a scenario where the user can enter the special characters in one of t

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:26:35 GMT

I had a case where a user pasted some formatting character into a paragraph field (my guess is that it was a weird bullet point, copied out of a Word document), which caused a failure during the Write to DS. This environment is cloud-based and the DB is utf8 unicode. It's only happened once in over a year in production, so there's that.

RE: we have a scenario where the user can enter the special characters in one of t

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:07:31 GMT

A well configured DB should not have problems with any character. Is the DB set to unicode?

RE: we have a scenario where the user can enter the special characters in one of t

harshav — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:29:33 GMT

May be you can try some Text functions like Stripwith,substitute .... for each variable by writing some apply functions... Not sure you have seen these but attaching this for your reference
forum.appian.com/.../Text_Functions.html
Hope this would Help !!! :)