# Special character issues - Url link update in dashboard and database - Postgresql
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard, database
**Created:** [20 April 2022 09:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532 "2022-04-20T09:20:10Z")
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### Author:  [@learnobyte](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/learnobyte)
#### Post date: [20 April 2022 09:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/1 "2022-04-20T09:20:10Z")
hi all, i am updating the url link in database through ui-text input node and postgresql, displaying ui-table.
example: [http://localhost:3000/d/oJ65LywGk/dashboard-oee-1?orgId=1](http://localhost:3000/d/oJ65LywGk/dashboard-oee-1?orgId=1) this is the url, after updating, in the ui-table and database, it shows like below:
Where it is not accepting special characters.
SQL Query: INSERT INTO grafana\_list (machine\_name,machine\_no,link,note) VALUES ('{{msg.payload.machine\_name}}','{{msg.payload.machine\_no}}','{{msg.payload.link}}','{{msg.payload.note}}');
[http://localhost:3000/d/oJ65LywGk/dashboard-oee-1?orgId=1](http://localhost:3000/d/oJ65LywGk/dashboard-oee-1?orgId=1)
requesting to support
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [20 April 2022 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/2 "2022-04-20T15:26:36Z")
> [@learnobyte](#):
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> {{msg.payload.machine\_name}}
use triple braces
`{{{msg.payload.machine_name}}}`
Then it will not convert html/special characters
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### Author:  [@learnobyte](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/learnobyte)
#### Post date: [21 April 2022 04:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/3 "2022-04-21T04:01:19Z")
Thanks @E1cid , it is updating correctly., why three curly brackets are using?
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [21 April 2022 06:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/4 "2022-04-21T06:11:05Z")
If you read the help info for the node in the sidebar it explains that 3 braces tell the node not to replace html/special characters. Why, because that's how the node author configured it, probably so you can display the text on a web page, where the characters would cause issues.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [21 April 2022 07:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/5 "2022-04-21T07:35:44Z")
It’s a “feature” of the mustache syntax library being used. See the mustache docs for details [GitHub - janl/mustache.js: Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript](https://github.com/janl/mustache.js)
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### Author:  [@learnobyte](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/learnobyte)
#### Post date: [21 April 2022 14:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/6 "2022-04-21T14:05:33Z")
Thanks @E1cid
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### Author:  [@learnobyte](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/learnobyte)
#### Post date: [21 April 2022 14:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/7 "2022-04-21T14:05:48Z")
Thanks @dceejay
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5 May 2022 14:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/special-character-issues-url-link-update-in-dashboard-and-database-postgresql/61532/8 "2022-05-05T14:06:10Z")
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