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3038759 - Acceptable Special Characters in Passwords - Recruiting Management

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This article describes the supported special characters for passwords in Recruiting Management.

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

Resolution

Here are the known acceptable characters. 

CharacterNameUnicode
!ExclamationU+0021
"Quotation MarkU+0022
#Number sign (hash)U+0023
$Dollar signU+0024
%PercentU+0025
&AmpersandU+0026
'ApostropheU+0027
(Left parenthesisU+0028
)Right parenthesisU+0029
*AsteriskU+002A
+PlusU+002B
,CommaU+002C
-MinusU+002D
.Full stopU+002E
/SlashU+002F
:ColonU+003A
;SemicolonU+003B
<Less thanU+003C
=Equal signU+003D
>Greater thanU+003E
?Question markU+003F
@At signU+0040
[Left bracketU+005B
\BackslashU+005C
]Right bracketU+005D
^CaretU+005E
_UnderscoreU+005F
`Grave accent (backtick)U+0060
{Left braceU+007B
|Vertical barU+007C
}Right braceU+007D
~TildeU+007E

Here are the known invalid special characters. Spaces are invalid especially in passwords. 

CharacterNameUnicode

SpaceU+0020
”Right Double Quotation MarkU+201D
’Right Single Quotation MarkU+2019
–En Dash U+2013

Sample Accepted Passwords:

pAss!#$%&Accepted Password
pAss()*+,Accepted Password
pAss-./:;<Accepted Password
pAss=>?@[\]Accepted Password
pAss^_`{|}~Accepted Password

Notes: 

a. Double Quotation Marks

” Right double quotation marks (curly quotation marks) are not accepted.
" Quotation marks (straight quotation marks) are accepted. 

Difference: In a standard keyword, when you click SHIFT + quotation marks, you usually get the straight quotation marks which is an accepted special character.

b. Single Quotation Marks / Apostrophe

’ Right single quotation mark (curly quotation marks) are not accepted. 
' Apostrophe (straight quotation marks) are accepted. 

Difference: In a standard keyword, when you click SHIFT + quotation marks, you usually get the straight quotation marks which is an accepted special character.

c. The hypen-minus (-) or short hypen is considered a valid character, but the en dash (–) or long dash is an invalid character. 

Difference: En dash (–) is usually the special character you will get when you type hypen minus (-) then click enter or space on Word documents. 

Keywords

Recruiting Management, RCM, Acceptable Special Characters, Password, API, Integration , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-ADM , Admin Center, RBP, Permissions and Settings , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions