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Problem Note 13777: The "ERROR: There is an illegal character in the entity name" message can appear when you attempt to update metadata that contains special characters
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When you try to update metadata that contains an ampersand (&) or other special character in any paths, you might encounter the following error message:
ERROR: There is an illegal character in the entity name
This problem has been encountered when any path in a promotion job contains an ampersand (&) character. If a new substitution validation is done on the promotion job, the ampersand will show up in the bottom of the PATH list with a red X mark.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Metadata Server | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M2 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||