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Restricted Characters

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Restricted Characters

When you define names addresses and other text fieldsin Sterling TMS youcannot use the following characters:

CharacterDescription
\Backslash
"Double quotes
%Percent sign
#Pound sign
<Less than sign
>Greater than sign
|Pipe character

In addition certain text fields such as reason code namesdo not support the following characters:

CharacterDescription
&Ampersand
/Forward slash
!Exclamation point
@At sign
^Carat
*Asterisk
_Underscore
+Plus sign
=Equal sign
{ }Braces
[ ]Brackets
Single quotes
Question mark

In addition a shipper or carrier cannot create an areaname that contains a period. Only areas created by Sterling TMS cancontain a period in the name. For example MN.USA is the Minnesotastate area.

As a best practice you should only use lettersnumbers and the following characters in text fields:

CharacterDescription
-Hyphen
;Semicolon
:Colon
.Period
Comma
( )Parentheses
"

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Modified date:
08 December 2018

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