User Guide

Table 9 Supported Special Characters
Character
Name or Meaning Character Name or Meaning
( open parenthesis $ dollar
) close parenthesis + plus
“ quotation mark / slash
' single quotation mark \ backslash
, comma ^ caret
& ampersand ; semicolon
= equal to # pound
< less than @ at
> greater than
Table 10 Special Characters that Should not Be Used in Application IDs
Character
Name or Meaning Character Name or Meaning
, comma ; semicolon
< less than + plus
> greater than = equal to
& ampersand
Table 11 Special Characters that Should not Be Used in Application Names
Character
Name or Meaning
[ open bracket
] close bracket
( open parenthesis
) close parenthesis
● Special characters are not permitted in the value set for the Login User attribute.
● Asterisk (*) is not supported in user names, group names, user and group URLs, and in the
name of the OU in UserDN.
● Attribute values containing a combination of special characters are not supported.
● Ampersand (&) can be used without an escape character. For MSAD settings, & must be
specified as
&amp;.
● User and group names cannot contain both a backslash (\) and slash (/). For example, names
such as
test/\user and new\test/user are not supported.
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