topic Section Access: allowed characters in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845452#M1258246 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Good day,</P><P></P><P>Our section access is based on NT logins.</P><P>Normally this works ok, but when usernames have special symbols, we're stuck.</P><P></P><P>ok:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Youssef</P><P>nok:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Odé</P><P></P><P>We tried with ODE and OD<SPAN style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: NL-BE; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">É</SPAN>, but neither works.</P><P></P><P>Any idea how to handle this?</P><P></P><P>Tnx, karel</P><P><BR /> </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Section Access: allowed characters https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845452#M1258246 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Good day,</P><P></P><P>Our section access is based on NT logins.</P><P>Normally this works ok, but when usernames have special symbols, we're stuck.</P><P></P><P>ok:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Youssef</P><P>nok:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Odé</P><P></P><P>We tried with ODE and OD<SPAN style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: NL-BE; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">É</SPAN>, but neither works.</P><P></P><P>Any idea how to handle this?</P><P></P><P>Tnx, karel</P><P><BR /> </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845452#M1258246 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Re: Section Access: allowed characters https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845453#M1258249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>That's weird, because AD ignores diacritic marks (this is by design, you cannot define both AndréLeroy and AndreLeroy as AD Logon Names because they are considered identical)</P><P></P><P>At least ODE should work. Maybe this is a genuine QV problem?</P><P></P><P>Peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:48:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845453#M1258249 Peter_Cammaert 2015-04-16T08:48:42Z Re: Section Access: allowed characters https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845454#M1258253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>BTW where does you SA data originate? In an external file perhaps? Then this might help: <A href="https://community.qlik.com/message/290494">Re: Hidden special character causing error in Section Access?</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:52:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845454#M1258253 Peter_Cammaert 2015-04-16T08:52:17Z Re: Section Access: allowed characters https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845455#M1258257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Tnx Peter,</P><P>Changing load to (txt, <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>utf8</STRONG></SPAN>, <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>embedded labels</STRONG></SPAN>, delimiter is '\t', msq); solved the problem indeed.</P><P>karel</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:12:24 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Section-Access-allowed-characters/m-p/845455#M1258257 2015-04-17T07:12:24Z