Label = " Makes sitemap unable to load

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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It’s not a big issue, however it should be fixed or noted in the documentation.

If you in your sitemap by accident put a label space = … sitemap will not load,
It should be label= " … So after = you can have as many spaces as you want, but NOT before…

Not a big deal for me, because the log pointed me straight to the typo, but I thought I should let the community know and maybe add a note on : https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/sitemaps.html

Similiar is also the case for

[%.1f °C]

which does not render correctly unless you use the right file encoding… Which also in my opinion should be mentioned in the documentation.

Let me know if I should add a pull request on the documentation.

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I think both are mentioned in the docs:

sitemap <sitemapname> label="<title of the main screen>" {
    [all sitemap elements]
}

Important note: All text files must be created with UTF-8 encoding. When using Visual Studio Code, this encoding is already set by default.

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Maybe cross reference it? To also mentioned it in items,sitemap files as well?

it is not explitily written label =“jgskjgks” does not work

because label= "sjdkgsldgjl … does work…

And it is kinda strange that white-spaces are not allowed like in most other languages… so its easy for beginners and even me after not doing OH for a year when coming back to OH I automatically typed label = "foo because that’s how its common in other languages… I do not know hard it is to fix this in the next release of OH.

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You used the tilted Quotation marks! On purpose? You have to use the straight ones!

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Just marked the text and pressed quote… Is that wrong?

6

In short,Yes!
Some “smart” editors automatically set those quotation marks.

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