Symptom
When creating a Registered Product, the following error message is displayed:
'Serial ID is invalid. Only the following values accepted – Alphanumeric, colon (:), hyphen (-), underscore (_), slash(/), backslash(\), dot(.)'
Environment
SAP Cloud for Customer
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Products work center.
- Select the Registered Products view.
- Select the New button.
- Maintain the necessary details including a Serial ID.
- Select the Save button.
The following error message is shown:
'Serial ID is invalid. Only the following values accepted – Alphanumeric, colon (:), hyphen (-), underscore (_), slash(/), backslash(\), dot(.)'
Cause
The Serial ID contains a special character (e.g. $, %, *, space or number that start with zero).
Resolution
Remove the special character and save the Registered Product.
The Registered Product Serial ID field value is alphanumeric and supports alphabetical characters A - Z, numbers 0 – 9, hyphen (-), underscore ( _ ), colon (:)
Any other characters other than the above mentioned are not supported. Currently this is the standard system behavior.
Keywords
Serial ID Registered Product not valid create save error , KBA , LOD-LE-IBA-IBA , Installed Base , Problem