If you attempt to create a new User Profile Property Section with a Name of “SPS-name”, you’ll receive the following incorrect error message:
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Invalid Property name. Please enter a property name that matches the specification of URI schema name (RFC2396), which must begin with a letter, and must contain only letters, digits, and the characters ".", "+", or "-". |
However, that error message isn’t accurate. Instead, SharePoint reserves the use of “SPS-“ to itself. Within Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.CoreProperty is a check to validate whether or not the new section starts with “SPS-“, and if so, throws an error:
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public override string Name { get { return this.m_Name; } set { base.AdminCheck(StringResourceManager.GetString("PropertyUpdateAccessPermissionError")); if (!this.m_IsSection && !base.IsNewProperty) { throw new UpdateReadOnlyFieldException(StringResourceManager.GetString("Exception_Property_cs1")); } this.m_Name = Validation.SqlStringValidate("Name", value, 50, true, false, !this.m_IsSection); if (this.m_Name.StartsWith("SPS-", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { throw new InvalidValueException(StringResourceManager.GetString("Exception_Property_Name_SPSReservedPrefix")); } if (base.IsNewProperty) { this.m_OldName = this.m_Name; } base.m_IsChanged = true; } } |
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This incorrect error message occurs from at least as early as June 2011 v2 CU to the August 2012 CU. This incorrect error message also occurs when attempting to create a new Property with the name of “SPS-“.
