Underscores in names

[philip.scadding]

Hi Matt

This is also similar to this topic I created.

How do I convert white spaces in entity names to underscores and not hyphens during folder creation?

If an entity has white space characters in its name, by default Toolkit will replace these characters with hyphens when creating folders and files. It’s not uncommon for us to get asked if it’s possible to replace white space characters with underscores instead. To which the answer is yes it’s possible but not normally advisable. The reason for this is that we use the _ character as a separator between template keys. As an example, if we had ...{asset}_{task}... in a template path, and if …

Replacing the _ with - as template key separators should work as well. To my knowledge, this should be fine, but I’ve not personally tested this in production.
Perhaps others have had some experience with this.

Thanks
Phil