How to Remove Special Characters from Metadata Names

About the Metadata Name Sanitizer Pipeline Stage

The Metadata Name Sanitizer pipeline stage removes spacial characters (including spaces) from all metadata names of the processing item. 

  • This stage must be placed after all other stages that process/generate metadata that you want to remove special characters for.
  • This component removes any special character or space from the metadata name (for example Microsoft_Location will become MicrosoftLocation)
  • To check all the processed metadata names, you can either use Recorder component or Pipeline Testing page.

How to Add the Metadata Name Sanitizer Component

  1. Navigate to the AutoClassifier Pipelines component page.
  2. Click New Component and select Metadata Name Sanitizer from the component list:
  3. Name your new Metadata Name Sanitizer component and click Add
  4. Click Apply to save your changes.
  5. Ensure your new Metadata Name Sanitizer component is placed in the list of existing pipeline stages.

How to Configure the Metadata Filtering Component

  • There is no actual configuration required for this component.
  • All metadata properties available to be processed by this stage are processed to remove special characters from the name. 
  • To enable this component access the component, and click apply without config changes.