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[Qlik Replicate][Transformation] Improvement request about description of transformation's limitation (Special characters).

iti-attunity-sup — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 01:42:14 GMT

Hello

> Functionality: How does the product work now?

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/replicate/November2021/Content/Global_Common/Content/SharedEMReplicate/Customize%20Tasks/tasks_transformations.htm
- Transformations cannot be performed on columns that contain special characters (e.g. #, \, /, -) in their name.

This description is not clear and there is two problem.
1. This description only show examples , we can not judge wether our environment violate this limitaion.
2. This limiation is about only source column name? also target column name?

> Functionality: How would you like it to work in the future?

Please fix description to clear above two point.

Fortunately , at some my customer this limitation was suspect as the cause of crash and I was answered from support team these questions.

Specifically. Each answers are
1. #, \, /, -,? , *, [ , ]
2. Both source and target column names.

> Motivation: Why is the change important for your business?
> Importance: What is the impact if the feature request is not approved?
> Benefits: What is the impact if the feature request is implemented?

In general , custsomer design task by self checking limitation from user guide.
But now because user guide is unclear , some customer ask us to check exact limitation , other customer creates high priority case after some business impact issue occur.
These cause customer unsatisfaction and will result below.
- Affect to subscription renewal or new sell.
- Our (and your) support resource exhaust.

For example in above cusotomer's case , customer creates high priority case after some business impact issue occur.
Qlik support suspected special characters are crash cause and we spent about one month to check the suspection. But as a result this is not the cause.
If customer avoided using these special character by self checking , we needed not spent such wasted resource.

Best Regards
iti-attunity-sup

Re: [Qlik Replicate][Transformation] Improvement request about description of transformation's limitation (Special characters).

bobvecchione — Tue, 03 May 2022 11:43:58 GMT

We are reviewing and will get back to you.

Bob V

Re: [Qlik Replicate][Transformation] Improvement request about description of transformation's limitation (Special characters). - Status changed to: Open - In Development

Nulee_Massaro — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:21:32 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion. The team is actively working on this. We are hoping to deliver it in the upcoming May 2023 release.

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Re: [Qlik Replicate][Transformation] Improvement request about description of transformation's limitation (Special characters). - Status changed to: Closed - Archived

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