An illegal character error prevents saving changes in Form Designer if a choice list table contains entries with "%" in the labels - Known Error

An illegal character error prevents saving changes in Form Designer if a choice list table contains entries with "%" in the labels Description The Form Designer breaks when there is a field using a choice list table with any entry containing the percentage character "%" in the display label. The error message showing is the following: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern

Steps to Reproduce

Login as administrator and use the attached update set to import the mentioned test fields if needed.

1. Create a field incident.u_percentage_test of type String. 2. Create a choice for this field which has "%" in the label. 3. Test the Form Designer on Incident table. Notice everything works fine. 4. Create a field cmdb_ci_computer.u_percentage of type String. 5. Switch to Advanced View in the dictionary. 6. Set the "Choice table" to the Incident table. 7. Set "Choice field" to "Percentage". 8. Open any cmdb_ci_computer record. 9. Right click on the header and choose "Form Designer" from the context menu. 10. Put the "Percentage" field on the form and click on "Save".

Notice you are not able to save the form due to the thrown error: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern. Workaround After carefully considering the severity and frequency of the issue, and the cost and risk of attempting a fix, it has been decided to not address this issue in any current or near future releases. We do not make these decisions lightly, and we apologize for any inconvenience.