An exclude filter may not work as expected when you try to create a CSS project in Commerce Server 2007

Consider the following scenario:

• You try to create a Commerce Server Staging (CSS) project in Microsoft Commerce Server 2007.
• You add an exclude filter at the command prompt.
• Either the source path or the destination path contains a hyphen (-).

In this scenario, the exclude filter may not work as expected.

This problem is caused by the hyphen in the source path or in the destination path.

This problem occurs only when you add an exclude filter at the command prompt in Microsoft Commerce Server 2007.

To work around this problem, use one of the following methods.

Method 1

Use a backslash (\) to escape any quotation marks ("). If you use a backslash-and-quotation-mark sequence, you must replace this sequence with three backslashes and a quotation mark (\\\").

For example, the following command does not work as expected: Instead of using "-ExcludeMe\ " to exclude this folder, you must use "-\"ExcludeMe\\\" " to create the CSS publishing project. Therefore, use the following command:

Method 2

Rename the source folder or the destination folder so that the name does not contain a hyphen.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.