Overview

To make searching within the system easier, Accentis Enterprise uses certain punctuation characters to represent wildcards.

This means that if you are trying to search for an item code that contains any of these punctuation characters, Accentis Enterprise may provide you with additional results, or exclude the intended item code entirely.

For more information regarding advice for item codes, please see Inventory Coding Guidelines.

Which punctuation should I avoid?

These are some of the common special characters to avoid in your item codes, as they can contain special meanings within Accentis Enterprise, and when searching for text.

• " Double quotation marks
• ' Single quotation marks
• ? Question marks
• [] Square brackets
• {} Curly braces
• () Parentheses
• * Asterisk
• # Hash

For a list of which punctuation characters you can use to help when searching and how they can assist, please see Using Wildcards to search in Accentis Enterprise

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Last edit: 13/08/2026