Business Desk Problem with Catalog Categories that Include "&"

When you use the Business Desk, modifications to a product that is assigned to a category may not complete. This may occur for categories in the catalog if the category name contains an ampersand character (&) and the category is set as the primary parent category.

The Business Desk does not properly handle and delimit the ampersand character (&).

Avoid using ampersand characters (&) when you name categories.

To resolve the problem, make the following change to the Business Desk site.

Replace the following line in Edit_product.asp with the following:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This condition occurs when a user assigns a product to a category in a catalog and the catalog name includes an ampersand (&), such as "Category1 & Category2". If the user sets the primary parent category to the same, the user cannot make changes to the product attributes in the future.