The specified name is invalid: "_vger_fld_First Name"

Hi

I am getting the error

[0013] W3001 : Error while executing plugin: The specified name is invalid: “_vger_fld_First Name”

I have seen someone flag this error before, but their workaround was to take out the space in between First and Name.
It was said that this error was because it was trying to look up the field, but it wasn’t in the data, but i can see that it is.
It’s fine, it i dont select Metadata as the output type in the Execute Data Mapping, but i do need to.

Thanks in advance

Although spaces are valid in Connect Datamapper field’s name, they aren’t in Metadata.

Metadata comes from legacy PlanetPress Suite and is still valid in Connect Workflow but has it own set of rules when it comes to what is valid as field name.

Look for what is valid in the Metadata syntax (PlanetPress Talk ID) and simply remove any invalid characters from your fields name in your Datamapper.

Basically, if you keep using metadata, your field name have to follow thw following rules:

The name you choose should be both descriptive and unique, cannot begin with a number, and can contain only the following ASCII characters: underscore (_), upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, all digits 0 through 9.If you use an underscore in the name, it should not appear as either the first or last character of the name as this may cause internal conflicts in the software.

Hi Karl,

Is this using the Swift Sort plugin. If this is the case change the name in the Datamapper to something like First_Name.

You will need to then change the feild in the plugin to _vger_fld_First_Name and also update the Swift Sort or PAF profile to the new field value.

Hope this helps

Hi Dan,

Yes, this was for the Swift plugin.

That is exactly what I did :slight_smile: But thanks for the reply anyway.