Using Service Template with Square Brackets in Displaykey

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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:

Wouter Demuynck [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 5 days ago

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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

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

Added a few new pictures to better describe the issue
Damien Bunlet [DevOps Advocate] commented

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

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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