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RobDog888
09-27-2007, 10:18 PM
How do you get the product id to be capitol casing as it will only allow you to have lowercase leters and numbers as the ids?

I see the "Separate Sticky and Normal Threads" product is capitolized. How did they do that?

"Product ID: Separate"

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=117944

Does it have anything to do with capitolizing it in the xml file manually before installing?
Dismounted
09-28-2007, 06:59 AM
Why do you want it in uppercase?
RobDog888
09-28-2007, 07:54 AM
No major reason. Just think it looks more readable when you have a product id that contains multiple sylabels.

MyNewProduct vs. mynewproduct :D
Dismounted
09-28-2007, 10:16 AM
Uppercase letters are actually illegal according to the vBulletin Manual.
Product IDs can contain lowercase letters, underscores and numbers but no other characters.
Opserty
09-28-2007, 12:10 PM
Product IDs are what they say :p

Think of them as ID numbers with letters...most of the time they aren't meant to be readable. I thought there was a product name field anyway?
RobDog888
09-28-2007, 04:46 PM
<font color="darkgreen">Yes, uppercase characters are illegal which is why I wonder how the mod I linked to in my first post got their product id to be accepted as propercase?</font>
Analogpoint
09-28-2007, 05:31 PM
If you change the product ID in the XML file and then import it, it won't give you an error. I'll report this in the bug tracker. Bug report: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=23311
Paul M
09-28-2007, 06:57 PM
I reported it a while ago - allthough I'm not sure it will reject capital letters still.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22717
Analogpoint
09-28-2007, 09:17 PM
I reported it a while ago - allthough I'm not sure it will reject capital letters still.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22717

According to that bug report, it's fixed in 3.6.8, but I just tried it and it accepts capital letters.
RobDog888
09-29-2007, 05:43 AM
<font color="darkgreen">Well I assume there is good reason for not allowing uppercase characters so I will use lower. Just seeing it in the Separate productid on 3.6.8 made me question it.</font>