Personalization Key Validation Rules and Error Messages

Error: Invalid personalization key name: ‘<PK Name>‘. A valid identifier name must begin with an alphabetic character or an underscore, followed by alphanumeric characters or underscores.

The personalization key name is invalid.

Enter a valid name.

Error: Invalid personalization key name: ‘<PK Name>‘, name cannot be a Java or C# language keyword.

The personalization key name is the same as a Java or C# keyword, such as binary, boolean, byte, char, date, datetime, time, decimal, double, float, object, int, integer, long, short, string, switch, and so on.

Do not use Java or C# keywords as personalization key names.

Error: Invalid personalization key name: ‘<PK Name>‘, name cannot be a reserved personalization parameter name.

The name of the personalization parameter is a reserved key, such as: object, binary, boolean, byte, char, date, datetime, decimal, double, float, int, integer, long, short, string, time, cle.

Error: Invalid personalization key name: ‘<PK Name>‘, the length must be less than 64.

The length of personalization key name exceeds the allowed maximum.

Enter a valid name that is less than 64 characters.

Error: Duplicate personalization key name: ‘<PK Name>‘. The name is case-insensitive.

A personalization key with the same name already exists.

Enter a valid and unique name.

Error: The default value(s) of a non-nullable personalization key should not be set to ‘<NULL>’: ‘<PK Name>‘.

A null default value has been set for a non-nullable personalization key.

Set the default value for the personalization key to a non-null value.

Warning: Default value for the ‘<Type>’ data type for personalization key ‘<PK Name>‘ contains warning : ‘<Msg>’.

A structure personalization key contains a default value that generates a warning message.

Correct the problem identified by the warning message.

Error: Invalid default value ‘<Default Value>’ for the ‘<Type>’ data type of personalization key: ‘<PK Name>‘.

The default value for the datatype of the personalization key is invalid.

Set the default value to conform to the datatype.

Error: Invalid < PK Name > name: name cannot be empty.

The <PK Name> name cannot be empty.

Enter a valid value for the name of the <PK Name>.

Error: Invalid structure default value for the ‘<Type>’ data type for personalization key ‘<PK Name>‘: ‘<Msg>’.

A structure personalization key contains an invalid default value.

Correct the default value of the structure personalization key identified by the error message.

Warning: Default value exceeds allowed maximum length: ‘<PK_length>‘.

The length of the default value exceeds the data type’s maximum length.

Set the default value to conform to the data type length.

Error: Data type is not specified for the personalization key : ''<PK_name>''.

The data type is not specified for the personalization key.

Specify a proper data type for the personalization key.

Error: Structure type is missing for the personalization key : ''<PK_name>''.

The structure type for the personalization key is missing in the project.

Specify a proper structure data type for the personalization key.

Error: Structure ''<Structure name>'' contains field ''<Attribute name>'' with data type ''<BigString/BigBinary>'', and cannot be used as a personalization key.

A structure data type containing data type BigString or BigBinary has been defined as personalization key data type.

Change the structure data type to a non-BigObject-attribute structure or use any other simple type.

Error: The length of personalization key ''<PK name>'' is not specified, set to <default length> by default. Update the length to avoid truncation if necessary.

The personalization key was set to a default length because the personalization key length was not specified.

Update the personalization key length to avoid possible data truncation.