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Jessica_Ruffalo
Jessica_Ruffalo
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May 10, 2023
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How do I put a 'not equals' symbol into a program name?

How do I put a 'not equals' symbol into a program name?

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Darshil_Shah1
Darshil_Shah1Accepted solution
Community Manager
May 11, 2023

Yeah, you’d need to either copy paste it or insert it using the character map as it's not included in the standard keyboard setup.

 

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areilly10
Level 1
May 11, 2023

Not sure if this would impact it, but just a heads up to that symbols used in your program names could mess with API pulls or integrations. I've had to rename fields for using symbols that integrations didn't like even though the fields weren't even used in the integration, so I try to reduce punctuation and symbols where I can.

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Darshil_Shah1
Darshil_Shah1
Community Manager
May 11, 2023

I usually limit myself to using "-" or "_" apart from the usual alpha-numeric chars while naming the assets. 🙂

 

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    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    May 11, 2023

    Eh, this seems bit silly to me. I’m working in instances using CJK characters all the time. If an integration doesn’t support i18n in 2023 they need to hire people who get it.

     

    The only characters I might avoid are those that aren’t filesystem and/or OS compatible, which is a subset of ASCII characters

    / \ | < > : * ?

     

    But even, so a correctly written app will not have trouble with these. There’s little reason to be writing asset names to the filesystem, period, and no reason you can’t encode them as necessary. An app that’s trying to copy Program names to Windows/Mac files or folders verbatim is probably broken in a million other ways — it’s a code smell!

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    Darshil_Shah1
    Darshil_Shah1
    Community Manager
    May 10, 2023

    Need more details here:

     

    Do you mean adding the symbol in the program name or using a program name not equal to operator in a filter? Also, what exactly is the symbol you’re referring to? Is it != or ≠?

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    Jessica_Ruffalo
    Jessica_RuffaloAuthor
    Level 4
    May 10, 2023

    ≠   In a program name.  I realized I can copy and paste it in there, but wonder if there is a shortcut.  Thank you.

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    Darshil_Shah1
    Darshil_Shah1Accepted solution
    Community Manager
    May 11, 2023

    Yeah, you’d need to either copy paste it or insert it using the character map as it's not included in the standard keyboard setup.

     

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