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Using special characters that are not encoded in a task results in “Unbalanced quotes for data…” in Windchill PDMLink.

Modified: 07-Dec-2018   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 10.2
  • Windchill InfoEngine Server 9.0 to 10.2
  • Windchill InfoEngine Adapters 9.0 to 10.2

Description

  • Certain special characters like "less than", "greater than","ampersand","apostrophe" and "double quote" are used as as part of task parameters are not escaped resulting in “Unbalanced quotes for data…” error.
  • The log file shows:
ERROR : wt.adapter.exception - WTAdapterImpl
 (com.infoengine.util.IEResource/99) com.infoengine.exception.fatal.IESyntaxException: Unbalanced quotes for data in line 19 of file:///XXX.xml
at com.infoengine.SAK.TaskCompiler$Tag.parseTag(TaskCompiler.java:3555)
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