Input Issue(Colon) in Drop box

Hi.

When i was making a macro, I discovered the Issue that I couldn't find a colon character.

I think it happened because colon is delimiter(between Name and Value) in drop box so I tried add a escape character(\). But I still couldn't find a colon character.

Is that impossible now?

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patrick_digan

@Ferdy You can also take advantage of a unicode character that looks similar. Here is the character. You should be able to copy and paste from the answer in stack overflow.

It looks identical to a colon but it's not. You would just replace your first colon with the look alike.

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afv2688

Hello @Ferdy ,

It seems that yes, to put that in the name would be impossible. As far as I can see and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, the first time it appears it separates the name from the value. Unless you do some change in the alteryx code it wouldn't work.

Note: I do not recommend you to enter and change the code unless you know what you are doing.

Regards

danilang

Hi @Ferdy

You can work around this issue by reading the values in the list from an external source

Mine is set like this

giving

Dan

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patrick_digan

@Ferdy You can also take advantage of a unicode character that looks similar. Here is the character. You should be able to copy and paste from the answer in stack overflow.

It looks identical to a colon but it's not. You would just replace your first colon with the look alike.

Annotation 2020-01-13 080223.jpg

Ferdy

I can find a colon character using "꞉"

Thank you for your help 🙂

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