Allowed Characters and how ARA Names are Rendered to AE Names
About allowed characters for object names in ARA and in the AE.
Note, that the rules in this topic are fully implemented with ARA version 6.0.1.
The naming convention for objects in ARA is not as restrictive as it is in the AE. To store objects in the AE, names are rendered to the AE naming convention. In this case all not allowed characters are replaced by allowed ones when creating objects in the AE.
When a workflow name already exists in AE, it cannot be created even based on another ARA object name which renders to the same AE object name. To avoid the risk of not getting a new workflow created, do not use special characters which are not allowed for AE names.
Allowed Characters for ARA Objects
Allowed characters for ARA objects are the following: Alphanumeric characters, " " (blank space), "." (full stop), "-" (minus sign, hyphen), "_" (underscore), "@", "$", "#".
All other characters are not allowed for ARA object names.
Allowed Characters for AE Objects
Allowed characters for AE objects are the following: A-Z, 0-9, $, @, _, -, .
All other characters are not allowed for AE object names.
AE object names can consist of up to 200 characters. TimeZone object names must not exceed 8 characters.
Rules for Replacing Not Allowed Characters when Rendering from ARA to AE Name
Affected object names:
- Workflows (Application, Component, General)
- Queues
- Login Objects
Rules:
- ARA object names are converted to upper case
- German characters - Umlauts and Latin small letter ß (sharp S / Eszett) - in ARA object names are converted as follows:
- Ä, ä → AE
- Ö, ö → OE
- Ü, ü → UE
- ß → SS
- A full stop is replaced with one single "_" (underscore)
- Every other character in ARA object names which is not allowed in AE is replaced with one single "_" (underscore)
Examples
|
Name Chosen by the User |
Name of the Object in the AE |
|---|---|
|
My.App Österreich |
MY_APP_OESTERREICH |
|
______ |
_ |
|
az09$@__.# |
AZ09$@_# |
|
PATCH APP.PATCH_WF.DEPLOYCOMPONENT.D |
PATCH_APP_PATCH_WF_DEPLOYCOMPONENT_D |