Package installation fails: Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-5.1.zip

[bohessner]

Expected Behavior

Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-5.1.zip will install

Actual Behavior

"An item name cannot start or end with a space"

Node:
"items/core/sitecore/system/Dictionary/PowerShell/T/The data for the dialog is not available Either your server was restarted or the server cache was /{90A4B70F-D65F-477F-A3B0-CF580530DD68}/en/1/xml"

After "was" is a whitespace.

I have tried to set:

setting name="InvalidItemNameChars" value=""
setting name="ItemNameValidation" value="[\s\S]+"
setting name="MaxItemNameLength" value="1000"

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

Sitecore.NET 8.1 (rev. 151207)

Installed:
Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-5.0.zip

[michaellwest]

Have you tested by restoring the values to the default settings?

[bohessner]

I have restored the values to default settings:

setting name="InvalidItemNameChars" value="/:?"<>|[]"
setting name="ItemNameValidation" value="^[\w*$][\w\s-$]*((\d{1,})){0,1}$"
setting name="MaxItemNameLength" value="100"

The installation error:

"ERROR Installation failed: Sitecore.Exceptions.InvalidItemNameException: Et elementnavn skal passe til mønstret: ^[\w*$][\w\s-$]*((\d{1,})){0,1}$ (styres af indstillingen ItemNameValidation)"

When I change ItemNameValidation to accept anything the next error will be: MaxItemNameLength (the item is 100+)

I set MaxItemNameLength to 1000, and "An item name cannot start or end with a space" error will kick in - like in the initial post.

[bohessner]

Hi

Decompiled sitecore and found:

public static string GetItemNameError(string name)
{
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Error.AssertString(name, nameof (name), true);
if (name.Length == 0)
return Translate.Text("An item name cannot be blank.");
if (name[name.Length - 1] == '.')
return Translate.Text("An item name cannot end in a period (.)");
if (name.Length != name.Trim().Length)
return Translate.Text("An item name cannot start or end with blanks.");
if (name.IndexOfAny(Settings.InvalidItemNameChars) >= 0)
return string.Format(Translate.Text("An item name cannot contain any of the following characters: {0} (controlled by the setting InvalidItemNameChars)"), (object) new string(Settings.InvalidItemNameChars));
string itemNameValidation = Settings.ItemNameValidation;
if (itemNameValidation.Length > 0 && !Regex.IsMatch(name, itemNameValidation, RegexOptions.ECMAScript))
return string.Format(Translate.Text("An item name must satisfy the pattern: {0} (controlled by the setting ItemNameValidation)"), (object) itemNameValidation);
return string.Empty;
}

How do I get around this?

[michaellwest]

I'll have a look at the newer versions of Sitecore to see if this issue exists. Thank you for reporting it.

[bohessner]

Ok, I found a solution:

Opened Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-5.1.zip in 7-Zip and made changes inside the package.

Removed traling blank from this node:
\items\core\sitecore\system\Dictionary\PowerShell\T\The data for the dialog is not available Either your server was restarted or the server cache was

Opened the xml file and removed traling blank in both references:
\items\core\sitecore\system\Dictionary\PowerShell\T\The data for the dialog is not available Either your server was restarted or the server cache was{90A4B70F-D65F-477F-A3B0-CF580530DD68}\en\1\xml

[michaellwest]

I think that is the only item. Nice find.

[telltomithun]

Hi Michael, Could you share me the link which has the updated/fixed powershell zip file

[michaellwest]

Installing 6.1.1 would resolve the issue.

[ShilpySHU]

Getting same error when trying to install SXA on Vanilla Sitecore 9.3 on local machine.
[Sitecore PowerShell Extension for Sitecore 9.3]
Package for Sitecore PowerShell Extension 6.0 for Sitecore 9.3.

Message:
The installation failed.

An item name cannot start or end with blanks.

[michaellwest]

The solution can be found in the comments.