Reports with '&' (ampersand) in the name cause 'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference' error message - Known Error

Reports with '&' (ampersand) in the name cause 'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference' error message Description If a report is stored with '&' (ampersand) in the name, opening it throws the error 'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference'.

Steps to Reproduce

Set glide.ui.escape_text to false. Create a report with an ampersand (&) in its title and save. Navigate to the report and open. Note the error message displayed:

Workaround This issue occurs on instances where the glide.ui.escape_text system property has never been set. If this property is set to true a first time, then the issue is never reproducible again, even later when the property is deleted or set to false.

Use one of the following workarounds:

Navigate to sys_properties.list on the Application Navigator. Search for the Property glide.ui.escape_text by the name. Set glide.ui.escape_text to true . Related Problem: PRB806535