Special Characters in ShotFlow

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Special Characters in Platform
• Special Characters in Barcodes

Special Characters in Platform

We restrict use of non-alphanumeric characters in the ShotFlow Platform, except for the following: 

• # (pound)

• - (dash)

•   (white space)

• ' (single quote)

• " (double quote

• () (brackets)

• , (comma)

• . (period)

• & (ampersand)

• + (plus)

• % (percent)

Use of illegal non-alphanumeric characters impacts: 

• Actions

• Charts

• Data Ingest configurations

• Fields (field names and values- Barcode values are not included: Read more here.)

• Files

• Labels

• Modules

• Reports

• Roles

• Views

Special Characters in Barcodes

ShotFlow offers two options for Barcode encoding:

• Code 128 is the ShotFlow preferred encoding as it supports additional functionality that Code 39 does not
• Code 39 may be better for extremely small labels, due to lower data density (better readability at smaller sizes) 

Supported characters in each standard:

Code 128 (Recommended):
Upper and lower case characters (a-z and A-Z), numbers (0-9) and the following special characters:

• . (Period)
• - (Dash)
• _ (Underscore)
• $ (Dollar)
• / (Back Slash)
• + (Plus)
• % (Percent)
• whitespace

Code 39: 
Upper case characters (A-Z), numbers (0-9) and the following special characters:

• . (Period)
• - (Dash)
• $ (Dollar)
• /  (Back Slash)
• + (Plus)
• % (Percent)
• whitespace