Hi Ian,
 
If you use a double apostrophe it should work.  i.e. O''Toole
 
Eric Cleereman

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Subject: Login name restrictions


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One for Friday afternoon (well it is here!)...

Does anyone know of any character restrictions in the login name field (ID 101)?
(ARS 6.0.1 patch 1368, W2K server, SQL Server 2000)


In the 9 or so years we've been running AR System we have been using real names 
for login so that we can easily see who is doing what through work logs. We 
have a user with the surname "O'Toole" (note the apostrophe).  The user has no 
problems signing in over the past 18 months.  I have some Computed Groups and I 
was testing adding some users to the definition and if I try this particular 
user the group definition can not be saved.  In computed group definitions 
Groups are encased in double quotes (") and Users are encased in single quotes 
(').  This falls apart when the user has a single quote in their login name. I 
have checked the manuals and there is no mention of any restrictions on field 
101.  I have just tried to use the KnowledgeBase but it doesn't appear to be 
working at the moment!

Any thoughts chaps & chapesses?

Thanks,

Ian
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Ian Trimnell, AR System Lead Developer (amongst other jobs),
Specialist Support & Information Team, Academic & Administrative Computing 
Service
Open University, MILTON KEYNES, UK
Phone: 01908 653741   web: http://www.open.ac.uk/ 
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