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i4th8
Jul 31, 2024Copper Contributor
Character encoding in field names when working with power automate
This morning, I ran into an issue that I thought that someone else out there might run into. If you have a field name for example "SSL2" SharePoint is going to encode that field name with something l...
Jon_Lake
Aug 01, 2024Brass Contributor
Hi i4th8 , I found this useful explanation:
"Essentially SSL2 is being encoded to _x0053_SL2 because it resembles an "A1 mode" excel cell reference ([a-zA-Z]{1,3}[0-9]{1,5}). When Sharepoint sees one of those it decides it needs to encode the first character."
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