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Special Character "&" in Report Name

  • March 8, 2011 at 9:05 am

    #247763

    Hello All,

    Does anybody know if there is a workaround for using a special character in a report name? I need to include the "&" character as part of the report name and when I try to, I receive "The item name is not valid. Item names cannot contain the following reserved characters ;?:@&=+$,\*<>|"/, and cannot consist exclusively of dots or spaces."

    I'm hoping there is a way to do this.

    Thanks in advance.

    Ronnie

  • March 8, 2011 at 9:42 am

    #1295977

    Nope

  • March 8, 2011 at 9:46 am

    #1295979

    Geez...

    Is that a bug or just a limitation? I can't believe they (MS) didn't account for that.

    Thanks for the info!!

  • March 11, 2011 at 6:13 am

    #1297571

    Did you guys find a soln yet to the & issue.also passing a parameter with & included bombs out help...

  • March 11, 2011 at 7:39 am

    #1297618

    I haven't found a solution yet for it. I would imagine that there has to be one. Even if it meant manipulating the .rdl file but I don't know what that would take.

  • March 11, 2011 at 8:34 am

    #1297678

    That goes way beyond the scope of sql server. & is a reserved character in the url to split between parameters.

    Unless that rule changes, you won't be able to add that character to a filename even if windows does accept it in the file system.

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