Just a quick reminder if you’re converting UDF names retrieved from the custom dictionary, you need to code for the escapes:

_ = _5f

[space] = _20

/ = _2f

: = _3a

So I found myself having to create an export for only UDF’s and had to code it for the type coming out of the custom dictionary so that if it was a string it would output just the field and if it was a date it would apply a TO_CHAR function along with a date specification. As I hang my head in shame I did it in Excel because I didn’t have time to write the Python version of it and inadvertently misspelled field.

To make a long story short the GUI threw an error saying this is the list of expected elements, I’m sure this is somewhere in an XSD but it’s now here for reference:

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