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Using Service Template with Square Brackets in Displaykey

Solved432 views13th March 2025service template service templates
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Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst]1.81K 5th December 2024 0 Comments

Hi community,

I created a service template, where the displaykey of my "table row index" input data contains sqare brackets.

Then I use this Input Data to get another column of this table (as input data type "Fixed Value"), lets call it "TS Name".

If I create a Service which using this "TS Name" input data, the TS Name is replaced by "]".

e.g. "Element Name_]"

But if my Displaykey does not contain square brackets it reads out the data fine. and the resulting service name is e.g. "Element Name_TS Name"

Is there any way to use a Displaykey with square brackets or any workaround existing?

Name example (using index, because label cannot be used once displaykey contains brackets):

Resulting Services, works fine for displaykey without brackets, but fails with a service ending with ] if displaykey has brackets:

Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 13th March 2025

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Wouter Demuynck [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]5.91K Posted 17th December 2024 0 Comments

Hi Felix,

I'm afraid that this is a problem with the parser responsible for expanding the placeholders.

While it can expand

"[element:1:param:22306:[data:ts_displayKey:]]"

to

"[element:1:param:22306:TS-IP Out 1.3 [DVB-T2]]"

it messes up further down the line when it tries to fetch the cell value, trying to fetch row "TS-IP Out 1.3 [DVB-T2" (no closing bracket).

Unfortunately, I'm unable to come up with any workaround for this one. A fix in the parser would be required to make this work.

Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 13th March 2025
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Damien Bunlet [DevOps Advocate]43 Posted 6th December 2024 4 Comments

Hi Felix,

You can try to replace your square brackets by "?" or by "*" in your input data.

The question mark can take the value of one character while the asterisk can take the value of several characters.

Kind regards.

Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] Edited comment 6th December 2024
Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] commented 6th December 2024

Hi Damien,
the input data, used to retrieve the other input data, is of type "table row index" and already contains brackets. So no idea where I should put these wildcards in my case.

Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] commented 6th December 2024

Added a few new pictures to better describe the issue

Damien Bunlet [DevOps Advocate] commented 6th December 2024

Thanks for your pictures.
I don't read correctly your issue, I confused "Table Row Index" with "User Input Text" because we use only this in our service template.
So I try to reproduce your issue but in my case it works correctly.
I created two inputs data, one name "ts_name" and another one name "ts_displaykey". I applied the new service template with a display key that contain square brackets and it displayed the name correctly.
In your case it's a new application of the service or an update ?

Felix Wesemeier [DevOps Catalyst] commented 6th December 2024

Can you post a screenshot of your input data if it works for you?
I use „table row index“ when I apply the template and „fixed value“ is filled in automaticly using the row index I selected at applying the template.
Does not matter if this is a new Service or Updated one, same issue.

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