Hi, I just want to warn about these issues that we encountered and make a recommendation to avoid any special characters in device names.

This problem is related to creating new device servers; we detected that some characters (e.g. spaces and dots '.') are causing problems to both Jive, Astor and Starter. Max IV already had problems with accents and dots in the past and now we experienced it due to Astor finding dots in starter names.

We think that the easiest solution is to not allow the creation of devices if the name contains spaces or weird characters (e.g. ~.'*&^$%#@)).

Maybe we should specify that only english alphabet letters (without accents), numbers, dashes and slashes should be allowed at creation time.

Sergi Rubio
ALBA Synchrotron
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Edited 7 years ago