Special characters not allowed in name fields - OIM

The following fields in OIM do not support special characters:

• User Login
• Group Name
• Organization Name
• Resource Name
• Process Name
• Request Number
• Column Label
• Task Name

The following are the special characters that are not supported in the preceding fields:

• Semicolon ( ; )
• Pound ( # )
• Forward slash ( / )
• Percent ( % )
• Equals sign ( = )
• Bar ( | )
• Plus sign ( + )
• Comma ( , )
• Back slash ( \ )
• Double quotes ( " )
• Less than ( < )
• Greater than ( > )

If you are using your own form to create a user in OIM, make sure to restrict the above characters in the preceding fields.


The allowed special characters are as below :

! * @ $ ( ) ^ ? { } [ ] : ' ~ ` - _

Put these in a common regular expression pattern.