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2854672 - Special Characters in the Picklist Label Causing Error in UI and Report

Symptom

You would receive an application error when using picklist field with special chararcter in UI or Reporting

The application error id would be accompanied by showing following characters {value:"x", label:"x", externalCode:"x"} instead of Picklist Label.

Picklist Label displays following Characters  in Employee HRIS Element Portlets E.g Job information.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Picklist Management
  • SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1611 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1702 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1705 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1708 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1711 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1802 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1805 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1808 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1811 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1902 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1905 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1908 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1911

Keywords

Picklist Label, Story Report, report,  Double Qoute, Job Information Picklist, Picklist Label, Picklist External Code, Picklist Value, special characters, incorrect labels, {value:, value, label, external code, Odd characters in picklist file, special characters, .*[!@#$%^&*()_+={}"?;:<>\\\[\]\-\'].*, {value:" ", label:" ", externalCode:" "} , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-JOB , Job Information , LOD-SF-EC-MDF , MDF & EC2MDF Migration , LOD-SF-EC-BCI , Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) & Data Models (XML) , LOD-SF-EC-REP , Reporting Data (EC core only) , Problem

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