Saved setting naming convention

Feature Requests and Roadmap Discussion
1

Hi,
we are using OOD 4.2 and I found out that when using Saved Settings there is a weird behavior when the name includes a dot “.” - it appears on the list of saved settings but it does not start and it is not possible to remove it.

I had to change the name or removed manually from the file inside my $HOME.

Is there any naming convention we need to follow? is this the expected behaviour?

Thanks for checking on it

Erica

2

I would guess that’s a bug, but I would have to look into it more closely. Though using underscores _ is the best practice as those tend to get serialized correctly for dynamic javascript functionality.

3

I totally moved to underscore, but I was saving a setting to use bioc_3.22 and adding it as is to the saved settings made the issue appear. Thanks for looking into this

4

Just to be clear, this was a form item, not the value? I just want to be sure I know where to put the field to replicate.

form:
 - bioc_3.22
5

Hi Jeff,

here an example:
I requested it as Rstudio2026.06 (the rstudio version)

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And I get this:

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I can see it in my Saved settings

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And in $HOME/.config/OOD/settings.yml

batch_connect_templates:
   sys/shared_rstudio:
      rstudio2026.06:
        cluster: cluster
        ood_rstudio_home: "${HOME}/home_rstudio"
        ood_home_var: "${HOME}/home_rstudio"
        rstudio_workbench_version: 2026.08.1

But then it is stuck with this error
Selected saved settings not found.

6

Thanks, I’ve opened this ticket upstream and we may be able to patch it in the next patch before SC. I can’t promise that for sure, but we’ll try.

7

Thanks and no worries.

I have it documented properly and also have a solution for when it happens and how to fix it.