We all know MOSS is a royal pain in the gut. Today I am faced with yet another MOSS issue, file names.
Documents stored in a MOSS document library cannot contain the following characters in the filename: \ / : * ? " < > | # { } % ~ &
(1) Is it possible to apply a patch to MOSS to allow the same filenames as are permitted on a standard file system?
(2) If this is not possible is there some kind of adapter that can allow for this?
Thanks
1) No.
2) You could possible develop customized upload and download functionality that would encode/decode the special characters and store them in a special way.
Maybe you should take a look at this: SharePoint Auto Title. Just take a look, the shortcoming of it is you, I guess, you still can not use those characters you listed.
SharePoint is wonderful! (I dunno, if you want answers why disrespect the product that the people answering may be experts in?)
It makes sense that those characters are not supported. ? for instance serves a very distinct purpose in urls so you can't use it anywhere you like in urls. Nothing to do with MOSS really. Its a browser based app, thats all.