Validate the marketing definition names

The Marketing Operations API requires that the alias for each marketing definition is unique and by default consists only of letters, numbers, hyphens, and spaces or underscore characters.

The name of the marketing definition item is used as the value of the Alias property. The Definition Items Name Validator page validates the names of the marketing definition items so that the names can be edited before the upgrade.

In addition, you can make changes to the configuration and define your own rules for the permissible set of characters that can be used for aliases.

To validate the names of the marketing definition items:

1. To open the Definition Items Name Validator page, enter the following URL in a browser:

   http://<hostname>/sitecore/admin/DefinitionItemsNameValidator.aspx

2. Click Validate.

   The names of the definition items are validated, and a report called DefinitionItemsNameValidationErrors_{timestamp}.dat is saved in the \App_Data folder.

   This report lists all the validation errors that occurred.

3. Ensure you manually fix all the issues that were found, and then validate the names again.

Repeat this procedure until all the names have been validated.