VARIABLE NAME VALIDATION
Hey Low,
One other minor issue I thought I would put on your radar is the support/lack of support for colons (and other special characters) in variable names.
A site we're working on made use of ':' colons in the variable names (back when it was supported in early EE2.x).
I noticed this was an issue recently only when trying to save the variable once I was able to edit it.
It would be very handy to have an alert show up on Low Vars indicating that a variable needs to be renamed. The legacy colons in var names caused an issue with Matrix & Assets where the values would not show up properly at all. Changing the var name (i.e. replace colon with underscore) made it all work!
Before name change (invalid variable name):
After (valid variable name):
Thanks for your help!
Rowan
Replies
Low 2 Jul 2020 06:25
It's a bit of an edge case (only if the var already exists and has a colon), but I can see your point. Will take it under consideration.