How to pass special characters in URL sysparm_query to populate form fields

[skumars1808]

I need to autopoulate change description from a url. The change description and contain special characters.

Please help how can I send the special characters through a url.

[Pradeep Sharma]

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- Pradeep Sharma

[skumars1808]

I need to populate the description of a new change form through the URL. I am forming the URL through a UI Action as below:

'/change_request.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=description=' + current.description 

But when the description is having special character like "#" then it does not work. Without special characters it is working fine.

[Willem · Accepted solution]

Use encodeURIComponent() to escape the characters like so:

'/change_request.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=description=' + encodeURIComponent(current.description) 

For more info refer to:

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_encodeuricomponent.asp