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Integration Manager skips a character

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hello,

I have an Integration that imports a GP Intercompany entry from a .csv file.  There is a field called DISTREF which, logically enough, is mapped to the Distribution Reference field.  The field consists of the first 10 characters of a vendor name, followed by a tilde (~), followed by up to 19 characters of other descriptive information.

The problem I am having is that the character following the tilde is not making it into the journal entry.  So, for example, if DISTREF in the .csv file is "USAIRWAY~Airfare to Seattle", when I look at the entry after it has been integrated into GP it reads "USAIRWAY~irfare to Seattle".  The "A" of "Airfare" is missing.  I suspect it has to do with how IM is interpreting the tilde.

I can get the data changed to use a different character, but I was hoping someone could enlighten me as to other potential problem characters.  I don't want to use an asterisk (*) because it seems that a lot of vendor names use this character (this is credit card data, in case you were wondering).  Some other characters I'm considering are ">", ";", "+", and "/".  Would appreciate any advice as to whether any of these characters are problematic.  I'd rather not do this by trial and error, because it takes too long to get this kind of change done, unfortunately.  Thanks much!

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Integration Manager skips a character

    Thanks to all who responded.  Unfortunately I couldn't get either suggestion (using \~ or ~-) to work.  It dawned on me to just manually edit the source file and try a few different characters.  It looks like a semicolon works, so we will go with that.

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    Ian Grieve Profile Picture
    Ian Grieve 22,782 on at
    RE: Integration Manager skips a character
    I had a similar issue recently and found I couldn't escape the ~. However, I could use VBA to do a find and replace on the ~ to turn it into ~-; this removed the - and returned the data to it's original state.
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    keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,675 on at
    RE: Integration Manager skips a character

    hi,

    try to use a"\" before the tilde.

    so you would write "USAIRWAY\~Airfare".

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