Rundown Character Restrictions

In ENPS

The following characters cannot be used in the Story Slug and Segment columns:

\	Back slash
/	Forward slash
*	Asterix
"	Quotation Mark
<	Less than
>	Greater than
|	Pipe

If any of these characters are used in the Story Slug or Segment, they will be changed to spaces to prevent an error from occurring. Note that these are the same characters that cannot be used in filenames.

The reason we say “Story Slug and Segment” is due to how ENPS sees the columns (ex: “Story Slug - Segment”) when the file is saved. It is for that reason that the first “-“ used in a Story Slug forces the “-“ to disappear and everything after the first “-“ into the Segment column.

In Integrated Devices

There are characters that ENPS allows in the Story Slug and Segment column that your integrated devices (i.e. your video solution) may not allow, such as:

^	Accent circumflex (caret)
&	Ampersand
'	Apostrophe (single quotation mark)
@	At sign
{	Brace left
}	Brace right
[	Bracket opening
]	Bracket closing
,	Comma
:	Colon
$	Dollar sign
=	Equal sign
!	Exclamation point
-	Hyphen
?	Question Mark
#	Number sign
(	Parenthesis opening
)	Parenthesis closing
%	Percent
.	Period
+	Plus
~	Tilde
_	Underscore

Please consult with your integration partner for a list of characters that they allow to be used.