What will {EncodedTitle} do & Can I replace the underscore it adds?

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What will {EncodedTitle} do & Can I replace the underscore it adds?
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What will {EncodedTitle} do to my naming convention?

{EncodedTitle} is most commonly used to remove any spaces from the name of a workspace and replace it with an underscore. 
For example, if the name specified was Marketing Department, then the URL would be https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/Site_Marketing_Department

This will also:
  1. Replace the following characters with an underscore: " .,:;<>@[]\()$&+/=?#%{}|^~`’ if there were more than 1 replacements in a row this would be replaced with a single underscore.
  2. Removes diacritics, e.g. ä will become a. 
  3. Replaces language-specific special characters with their equivalent. Includes the following: ß,æ,Æ,œ,Œ,ø,Ø,ł,Ł,ı 
As part of your naming convention you may not want to use underscores for these, using the instructions below you can replace _ with something else, using a Request Variable:

Replace underscores in {EncodedTitle}

Our example, replace /new_teams_url to use hyphens instead e.g. /new-teams-url or no separator /newteamsurl
  1. Go to Admin > Templates > Request Variables
  2. Click +New Request Variable
    1. Set a unique identifier for this variable. e.g. 'NewEncodedTitle'
    2. Set the Output type = String
    3. In the Formula field use the following: {EncodedTitle}.Replace("_","-")  or {EncodedTitle}.Replace("_","") 
             
  3. Link the Request Variable to the Service Definition by going to Admin > Service Definition > Request > Request Variable Reference
  4. Click +Add Reference 
  5. Select the name of the Request Variable created earlier. 


  6.  Add the Request Variable name to the Title formula or URL format wrapped in { }
  7. Save the Service Definition
 
To view more examples of formulas to use, see the help icon on the Request Variables page  
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