What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Eduardo Fuentes — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 02:48:48 GMT

The API I am using should be compatible with these changes. That is the advantage of not using my own validation but the one in the public API :)

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:17:13 GMT

Noticed this in the 17.1 release notes: User's First and Last Names Can Now Contain Periods

This change applies to all means of user creation and editing, including the Add User Smart Service, the Update User Profile Smart Service, User Management in the Admin Console, and the People tab in the legacy /designer environment

Eduardo, looks like you'll need to update your plugin once more.

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:16:05 GMT

Thanks, Eduardo!

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Eduardo Fuentes — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:38:51 GMT

1. I've added the validation to the plug-in to match the out of the box character restrictions.

2. Looking at the JavaDocs of UserValidationUtils, used by the out of the box functionality too:

*Name fields may only contain letters, numbers, whitespace, and the _ or - special characters forum.appian.com/.../UserValidationUtils.html

Username can only contain letters, numbers, and the following special characters: @ . _ - . It must not match an existing username regardless of case. forum.appian.com/.../User_Management.html

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:12:27 GMT

Since our users are being imported from another system that we synchronize them with, we'll need to strip out invalid characters. Can you please provide a definitive list of what is valid?

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Eduardo Fuentes — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:04:13 GMT

I found that I am not using com.appiancorp.suiteapi.personalization.UserValidationUtil to make sure the inputs meet the UI and Add User constraints.

I'll release an update tomorrow that should prevent the use of forbidden characters by using com.appiancorp.suiteapi.personalization.UserValidationUtil

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

ChristineLHutchison — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:16:52 GMT

There has always been a difference in which special characters the smart service permits/blocks vs. the people tab. I used to have a document that lists which one allows which special characters. I will keep looking to see if I can find it. Unfortunately, the way I got to this list was good ol' manual test one character at a time as the product doc does not provide the listing.

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:34:40 GMT

No, "Update User Profile" is giving the error message in my initial message about invalid characters.

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Eduardo Fuentes — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:32:39 GMT

So basically Update User Profile allows characters that the People tab doesn't?

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:30:48 GMT

Correct, this is on Appian 16.3. We're also having the issue with the "Update User Profile" smart service.

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Eduardo Fuentes — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:29:03 GMT

I believe there's a different list of invalid characters in the UI from what the smart service Add User and the Create User with i18n have.

I'll take a look. Is this on Appian 16.3?

RE: What characters are valid in user profile first and last name?

Jason Ruvinsky — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:51:29 GMT

...sues using the "invalid" characters when added via that plugin? Is there an error with the OOTB functionality that is being over-zealous in its validation?