Defect #5152
closed
Cannot use certain characters for user and role names.
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Description
When I try to use certain characters for a role- or user-name, the naming fails with the error message Name is invalid.
These characters include {}[]:/()|@, probably more; _- are working fine.
This prevents me from using names in the form User Name (Info) or Role [Qualifier].
I expect this to be a global validation thing.
Furthermore I could not find any information on which characters are valid and which are not.
Related issues
Updated by Felix Schäfer over 14 years ago
First- and last names are checked against /^[\w\s\'\-\.]*$/i, i.e. letters, spaces, dashes, dots and apostrophes are allowed. I'm not a big fan of limiting names in any ways, but it seems everyone gets by.
Role names are checked against /^[\w\s\'\-]*$/i i.e. the same without the dots, I'll try to bubble up the topic at some developer meeting to see if there was a reason for limiting them so drastically.
Updated by Bruno Medeiros almost 14 years ago
I don't understand the reason for that limitation too.
+1
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang almost 14 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Target version set to 1.2.0
- Resolution set to Fixed
Limitation removed in r4599.
Updated by Go MAEDA over 9 years ago
- Related to Patch #4307: Models fails to validate localized field names since ruby 1.9.1p343 and 1.9.2p added