Good news, it’s simple

Argent implements sophisticated field input text control, so you can customize fields to take just about any special character

OK

But why do I have to do this? Why do I have to explicitly specify these characters?

Well, it’s a tradeoff – by default we treat these special characters as errors – we assume the Caps Lock was mistaken set on

There are 15 built-in types of input fields

Each type of input field has the default set of allowed input characters

Field Type	Alphabetic	Numeric	Default Extra Characters	Extension Registry
File Path	Yes	Yes	\\: $-_.	FILEPATH
Server/Device	Yes	Yes	.-_	COMPUTER
SQL Server Instance	Yes	Yes	.-_\	SQLSERVER
SQL Database	Yes	Yes	-_	SQLDATABASE
SQL Table	Yes	Yes	-_	SQLTABLE
Logon	Yes	Yes	-_\	LOGON
Password	Yes	Yes	-_!@#$%^&*()<>?	PASSWORD
MAPI Profile	Yes	Yes	@.-_	XCHPROFILE
MAPI Address	Yes	Yes	@.;&%=/\\+_:-[]	MAPIADDR
Internet Email Address	Yes	Yes	@.;&+_-[]	EMAILADDR
W200x Performance Object, Counter, Instance	Yes	Yes	% $():_/	PERFOBJECT
W200x Service	Yes	Yes	()-_&	W2XSERVICE
Registry Path	Yes	Yes	\ -_	REGISTRY
Modem Command String	Yes	Yes	%.+-#;=&,	MODEMTEXT
Location name in Argent SuperMaps	Yes	Yes	().,(including space)	LOCATION

There are two ways you can do this

Approach One: Extend The Allowed Input Text

1. Determine the input field

   For example, the field is about file path

   Check the above table for the registry of the extension

   For file path, it is FILEPATH

2. Then edit the Argent Console server registry

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Argent\ArgentManagementConsole\FIELD_ALLOW_TEXT\FILEPATH

3. If there is no such registry key, create one

   The value type is string
   

   If the client is remote client, edit the registry on that machine

4. The value should be a string of hex numbers for the additional allowed input text

   For example if you want to add ‘*‘ and ‘&‘ as allowed input characters, first check the ASCII table

   ASCII code for ‘*‘ is 0x2a, and ‘&‘ is 0x26
   

   So you add ‘2a26‘ as the value of registry

5. Restart the GUI, user then should be able to enter ‘*‘ and ‘&‘ to the field

Approach Two: Use Copy And Paste To Enter The Value

1. Edit the registry

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Argent\ArgentManagementConsole\BLIND_COPY_PASTE
   

   to value 1

2. Restart the GUI
3. Open the notepad to enter the desirable text and copy the text to clipboard
4. Use right-click context menu or Ctrl+V to paste the text into the field