Illegal Characters In Part Numbers - anyone have a list of them?

Epicor ERP 10
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Does anyone have an “official” list of characters that you shouldn’t use in Part Numbers?

Thanks,

Utah

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There’s an Epicor white paper on it. I’ll look for it.

I’d say there’s a few that should be ABSOLUTLEY avoided: ' (the foot mark), " (the inch mark), and (space), and any other characters a potential Barcode format might use.

Avoid the space character, as its easy to put an em space in when copying and pasting from a website. Or even if someone uses MS Word to convey the “part number”. Same for the “em dash” too.

Edit

here it is:

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Like Calvin says, and included in the paper, pick only characters that can be barcoded and safely sent using HTML (so no ", ', <, >, &, etc.)

My favorite part system:

###-####

The first three for some category and the remaining incrementing by one. Use more digits if necessary. The category will get screwed up quickly when a part can belong to two different ones but intelligent parts aren’t for long.

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I was just tinkering with Dynamic account segments, and I got a warning about underscore (we have some old ones with that), if you were to use part number as a segment.

Fair warning, I have no idea how dynamic segments work, but thought I’d throw that out there. (Research time!)

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Thanks gentlemen. I recall from Jose’s REST extended education class at epicor insights that HTML would start to play a role in standards.

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Hmmm … a quick BAQ of our part table shows 33 entries with an en-dash in the PartNum.
Most are Inactive. I’d bet that they were copied from a website and pasted right into the Part Entry.

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Non-marking hyphens (elongated hyphen or dash) are also bad news. - is ok but – not this guy

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