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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Hi Everybody. We use the custome smart service LDAP User Profile Synchronization</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/integrations/1856/hi-everybody-we-use-the-custome-smart-service-ldap-user-profile-synchronization</link><description>Hi Everybody. We use the custome smart service LDAP User Profile Synchronization With Usernames to synchronize users from our Active Directory into Appian. However, we have users whose names contain special characters such as periods for First or Last</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Hi Everybody. We use the custome smart service LDAP User Profile Synchronization</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/6588?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:37:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b426953b-6e93-44f8-9d16-1a2b5efef4f7</guid><dc:creator>felixl</dc:creator><description>Hi Hemalathat, which version of Appian did you use to test? I forgot to mention that we are experiencing this Appian version 6.6.1. It sounds like those special characters are allowed in the later releases.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hi Everybody. We use the custome smart service LDAP User Profile Synchronization</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/6583?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:30:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e2fb19d6-03c2-45b9-a748-7f271edade4f</guid><dc:creator>hemalathat</dc:creator><description>Hi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forum.appian.com/suite/wiki/73/Add_User_Smart_Service"&gt;forum.appian.com/.../Add_User_Smart_Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As given in this link, listed below are the characters that are accepted in for Username:&lt;br /&gt; At symbols (@)&lt;br /&gt; Periods (.)&lt;br /&gt; Underscores (_)&lt;br /&gt; Hyphens (-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried giving periods and special accented characters for first name and last name. It is also accepted. As I tried, given below are the special characters that are accepted in First Name or Last Name:&lt;br /&gt;@ _ - = : . ? &amp;gt; &amp;lt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>