REST API >>POSTing an ampersand
Paul Timms
9-21-20
Operating system: Windows
Is there a way to PATCH/POST strings containing ampersands? If I try to update a customer name to A & B it sets it to A and misses out everything from the ampersand onwards. Thanks.
Aldevinas Katkus
9-21-20
My experience shows it is still not possible. https://partners.hansaworld.com/forum/viewmessage/2/2993 scroll to the end.
Paul Timms
9-21-20
Thanks, hopefully it will be fixed very soon, given that it was a priority bug in July.
Swati D.
9-24-20
Hi Paul

Its still its still in the queue with the programmer. Apologies for the delay

Swati 24.9
Simone M.
10-30-20
Hi,
I've just checked again and currently this bug is still in the programmer's queue.
Paul Timms
12-15-20
Is there any update on this please? We have people using the API to create customers, and if their name or address contains an "unusual" character e.g. an & or an accented letter, it does not get created correctly inside SERP.
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