Symbols in Part Numbers

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Thanks, everyone, for all the help!

 

Ree

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Here’s Epicor’s official stance:

 

PAGE: 17735MPS

 

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

Is there any official document that talks about the use of special characters with part number field?

 

PROBLEM RESOLUTION:

With the part number field specifically, the best practice is to limit the characters used to only include alphanumerics (ASCII 48-57, 65-90,97-122) , vowels with diaereses /umlauts (ASCII 132, 137, 139, 148, 129, 142, 211, 216, 153, 154),  vowels with acute accents (ASCII 160, 130, 161, 162, 163, 181, 144, 214, 224, 233) , or the hyphen (ASCII 45). 

 

With a free form field (e.g. part description, comments) at the very least the use an ASCII control character (ASCII 00 through 31 and ASCII 127 with the exception of TAB, CR, and LF) should be prevented but there may be other characters that you wish to exclude based on your business practices.

 

PLEASE NOTE: when data is copied from a program like Microsoft Word control characters could be copied along with the text.  If copying from an external source into Epicor is common, it is recommended to use a plan text editor like Notepad (as an example) to prevent control characters from being included in the copied text.

 

VERSION:

10.0.700.4

ERP10

Epicor10

 

KEYWORDS:

best practices

text

characters

 

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:15 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Symbols in Part Numbers

 

 

I’ve always strongly encouraged folks to only use alphanumeric characters and no symbols whatsoever.  Feel free to put whatever you want in Part Description, but I’m a big advocate of keeping the Part Number clean for downstream purposes such as barcoding, reporting, exporting, importing, upgrades, etc. 

 

You never know where a backwards apostrophe (grave accent) or a pipe may screw up barcoding or a BAQ Dashboard etc. 

 

 

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Symbols in Part Numbers

 

 

I know that you can use a dash or an underscore in E9 part numbers. Are any other symbols available for use in part numbers? (I think that may be easier to answer than “what symbols *cannot* be used in E9 part numbers?”)

 

We are trying to replace some part numbers that were inadvertently put in with a wrong UoM.

 

Our system uses version 9.05.702A.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

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