Limiting Special Characters In Expense

[jnoble99]

Is there a way in concur expense to ban special characters from being entered in a concur expense report.  For example, someone is entering in the title of their report or business purpose field of an expense report a special character like the ' in the word Friendly's. We are running into issues with characters as commas, apostrophes, etc breaking our SAE file so we cannot import into Workday and thus causing manipulation of the file.  We want to somehow alert our employees that when they are entering special characters in a report or even the title of the report, the system will send up an audit flag letting them know special characters are not permitted.

[KevinD · Accepted solution]

@jnoble99 this is possible through field validation on the Forms and Fields configuration screen. Most likely you will not have access to this screen, so you would need to submit a ticket to SAP Concur Support to have them do this. They could also add a tooltip to the field reminding employees not to use special characters.