https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/ampersand-issue-when-building-external-url-with-parameters/m-p/1003335#M15015 <P>Hi there,</P><P></P><P>I am building a content block that has table, one of the columns is an external URL with multiple parameters. &nbsp; &nbsp; The issue I'm running into is that I think the Ampersand is a reserved character for the XML parser, but I need to include an ampersand as part of the URL. &nbsp; If you see the below, the problem is with the "&amp;" right before "<STRONG>formID</STRONG>"<STRONG>.</STRONG></P><P></P><P>Any other character will work, its just "&amp;". &nbsp; &nbsp; Unfortunately I need this character literally if I want to pass multiple parameters to the external site.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas for a workaround?<STRONG> </STRONG></P><P></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="find_real_file.png"><img src="https://www.servicenow.com/community/image/serverpage/image-id/105489i9641A8324C93696A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="find_real_file.png" alt="find_real_file.png" /></span></P> Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:50:24 GMT kurtbell1 2016-08-19T20:50:24Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/ampersand-issue-when-building-external-url-with-parameters/m-p/1003335#M15015 <P>Hi there,</P><P></P><P>I am building a content block that has table, one of the columns is an external URL with multiple parameters. &nbsp; &nbsp; The issue I'm running into is that I think the Ampersand is a reserved character for the XML parser, but I need to include an ampersand as part of the URL. &nbsp; If you see the below, the problem is with the "&amp;" right before "<STRONG>formID</STRONG>"<STRONG>.</STRONG></P><P></P><P>Any other character will work, its just "&amp;". &nbsp; &nbsp; Unfortunately I need this character literally if I want to pass multiple parameters to the external site.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas for a workaround?<STRONG> </STRONG></P><P></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="find_real_file.png"><img src="https://www.servicenow.com/community/image/serverpage/image-id/105489i9641A8324C93696A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="find_real_file.png" alt="find_real_file.png" /></span></P> Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:50:24 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/ampersand-issue-when-building-external-url-with-parameters/m-p/1003335#M15015 kurtbell1 2016-08-19T20:50:24Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/ampersand-issue-when-building-external-url-with-parameters/m-p/1003336#M15016 <P>Using ${AMP} in the jelly script solved this.</P><BR /> Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:17:16 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/ampersand-issue-when-building-external-url-with-parameters/m-p/1003336#M15016 kurtbell1 2016-08-22T14:17:16Z