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invalid characters - what are they in regards to Laserfiche?

Laserfiche Quick Fields

Updated December 30, 2019

asked on May 1, 2014

Ok, so in windows the normal reserved characters are as follows:

< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)

So is there any more that shouldn't be in a folder or filename inside Laserfiche? I know a few of these are ok in Laserfiche but I wouldn't want to confuse a user trying to export.

I'm using the following in the replace field of a substitution on Quickfields to make sure the initial naming doesn't have any of those restricted characters (because it's being OCR'd in agent).

\\|\||<|\>|\:|\?|\*|"|/

I simply replace all of these with a _

Anything I might be missing?

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replied on May 1, 2014 • Show version history

You may also want to replace square brackets [ ]. If your document name in Laserfiche has square brackets [ ], it makes it more difficult to search for the document by name since square brackets are used for wildcards.

As an example, if your document was name [Application] Smith, John, it's interpreted as any one of the letters in the word Application followed by Smith, John. You would have to search on something like ?Application? Smith, John to return the document.

Edit: you can also escape square brackets and other wildcards in searches using a backslash, like \[Application\] Smith, John.

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replied on May 1, 2014

Thanks for the tip!

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replied on December 30, 2019

Is there an official list of ASCII characters that are not allowed to be used when naming entries or folders in Laserfiche?

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replied on December 30, 2019

Or with metadata? I stumbled upon the control character (U+0002) being problematic in a data migration.

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