Article - CS41839

Restrictions on use of special characters in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 28-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • FlexPLM 9.1 to 13.0
  • Windchill Supplier Management 10.0 to 13.0
  • Windchill PartsLink 11.0 to 13.1

Description

  • Import of the data from Projectlink plugin errors in "An import error occurred" in Microsoft Project
  • Is there any documentation about the restrictions on the use of special characters
  • Are there any restrictions on the use of special characters
  • list of special characters that Windchill does not allow in loaders
  • Permitted characters on attributes
  • Special characters on attributes
  • Is it okay to use double quotes in the name field of a document
  • Is there any special character which is regarded as unauthorized
  • Is there any special character which is regarded as forbidden
  • Characters are not displayed correctly
  • Characters fail to show
  • Does specific characters (Φ λ °C θ μ @ ) support in Classification display name
  • Some Windchill Utilities (i.e: SoftTypeChangeUtility) fail when defining attributes with special characters:
Exception in the thread "main" wt.epm.query.QueryException ...
Couldn't repair and continue parse at Character xxx at Line yy
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