Data-Type "Notes" YSODs when value contains an apostrophe

[greystate]

Just had this beat me on the head again, so wanted to log it for future reference (or for nostalgia, whichever comes first :-)

Also couldn't find any closed issues about it (even though I've hit this more than once), so here it is:

If an apostrophe ( ' ) is used in the Notes data-type's value, it doesn't save, and it throws a nasty YSOD in the back-office - which means we can't write help text like this:

You can't use this because of XYZ

But have to resort to:

You can not use this because of XYZ

I bet it's JSON-related, since XML loves apostrophes so much it even has a special entity just for them :-)

[leekelleher]

Thanks for the note (sic) @greystate!

There was this only issue about it: http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/workitem/14820

Do you get the "potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected" error? I'm guessing not.

[greystate]

Ah - that's the one - I knew I'd seen something about it before.

Yes, I get that exact error. And FWIW, I'm living fine with the workaround - just wanted to log it so my brain remembers 'till next time :)

Also: Not losing any data either, since the back button takes me back to the second before I hit "Save". :+1: