MakeMDMName

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MakeMDMName

This function replaces characters in a text string that are not allowed in the name of an MDM object, to produce a valid name.

Syntax

MakeMDMName(Val)

Parameters

Val

Type: Text

Text value to encode.

(return)

Type: None

Copy of Val with changes to make it a valid name for an MDM object.

Remarks

The following changes are made:

▪Leading and trailing spaces are removed.

▪Null, blank, or empty names are converted to “No_name__”.

▪Any occurrence of the character # is replaced by #23 (23 is the hexadecimal representation of the Unicode character code for #).

▪Any character that is not allowed anywhere in an MDM name is replaced by # followed by its two-digit hexadecimal character code.

▪If the resulting text starts with any character that is not allowed at the start of an MDM name, then the string _#00 is inserted at the start of the text.

These conversions ensure that:

▪The resulting text is a valid MDM name.

▪Different input strings always produce distinct output strings.

▪It is possible to “decode” the resulting text to get the original (although no library function is provided to do this).

Examples

Original	After using MakeMDMName
domain\username	domain#5Cusername
user@domain.com	user@domain#2Ecom
\\machine\file	_#00#5C#5Cmachine#5Cfile
Neither agree nor disagree	Neither#20agree#20nor#20disagree
12	_#0012
Under $12	Under#20$12