Settings

Character Replacement Rules

Read this chapter to learn how to use special symbols (which are not allowed in the URLs) in the identifiers of products, customers and orders.

If you need to use any special symbols in the identifiers:

Step 1: Open the Sana Commerce backoffice and go to: Settings -> Character replacement rules.

Step 2: Here you can add rules to replace unsafe characters by substitutions.

Make sure your replacement contains alphanumeric characters and/or the following special characters: - . ! ( )

In the 'Character' column enter the unsafe symbol which must be replaced. In the 'Replacement' column enter the character that will be used as a substitution for the unsafe character:

Character Replacement Rules

These rules will be applied to the product IDs, customer IDs and order IDs when used in the URLs.