KB13132: Users receive message ‘A Name Contained an Invalid Character’ when executing an email-based dynamic subscription service in MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 10.x

• Strategy

This article explains why users receive message ‘A Name Contained an Invalid Character’ when executing an email-based dynamic subscription service in MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 10.x

SYMPTOM:
When executing an email-based dynamic subscription service in Strategy Narrowcast Server 10.x, the user receives the following error message:


Error transmitting to recipient - -1072896763:Unexpected error. DecodePropertyString: A name contained an invalid character. See line X, position XX:

CAUSE:
The user has an invalid Transmission Property set in the Information Source Module definition or the result set for the Transmission Properties attribute in the dynamic subscription report on Strategy Intelligence Server 10.x.

ACTION:
Set the Transmission Property in the Information Source Module definition (or the report result set) to use a valid Transmission Property like the following:

TransmitType='To'
TransmitType='BCC'
TransmitType='CC'

Comment

0 comments

Details

Knowledge Article

Published:

June 13, 2017

Last Updated:

June 13, 2017