# Url encoding weird error

**URL:** <https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978>\
**Category:** \[Q&A\] General\
**Created:** [October 6, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978 "2026-10-06T08:24:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ArnoldT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ArnoldT](https://community.novulo.com/u/ArnoldT)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978/1 "2026-10-06T08:24:01Z")

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Hi,

For a rest call I need to build up a url, one of the parameters in the url is the contact name field.

Name field can contain spaces etc so I need to urlencode this.

I am using plugin UrlEncodeAction for this.

So this is my process:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/novulo/original/2X/3/3dd2dda1aba84cc8fbfffd6ceef7a3ac375df9fe.png)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/novulo/original/2X/6/69dfeaee25887406add0344e7cf6916898b92944.png)

in the restread resources\_path parameter the url is built up with the output of the urlencode.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/novulo/original/2X/9/956e8b4b38882165ff2bf3b170d544856f4a89f6.png)

All fine, and no errors in the architect.

Now when I send this to deployment I get this error:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/novulo/original/2X/c/c1e5cac22152740f888408c86f423aa11a87df35.png)

I do not get this, why does it throw this error when the architect does not?  
How can I fix this, imo there should be no error at all.

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**Author:** ![k.molokova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@k.molokova](https://community.novulo.com/u/k.molokova)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978/2 "2026-10-06T13:23:48Z")

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@ArnoldT, hi! The first thing to check - plugin configuration and return values whether everything is set and types are correct. Have you checked it?

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**Author:** ![ArnoldT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ArnoldT](https://community.novulo.com/u/ArnoldT)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978/3 "2026-10-06T13:56:01Z")

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Hi Kate,

Yes I have double checked everything and also a collegue looked at this and saw nothing strange.

The urlencode plugin required no configuration, the return value is string and the class url requires a string. And if it would be a type error I would expect the architect to throw an error.

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**Author:** ![Wim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@Wim](https://community.novulo.com/u/Wim)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978/4 "2026-10-06T18:18:17Z")

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Hi Arnold, this is most likely a bug in the Architect. If you could you create an SR with the exact model number and revision where this issue occurred, we can investigate and fix this.

Is this by any chance a process on an N\_Contact virtual page? Seeing trigger.record.name\_fx and the duplication of the error makes me suspect it is. If so, if it is an issue similar to what I suspect, then as a temporary fix, you could probably define the process separately on the N\_Organization and N\_Person virtual pages, or wrap the whole process it in a process component.

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**Author:** ![ArnoldT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ArnoldT](https://community.novulo.com/u/ArnoldT)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/url-encoding-weird-error/978/5 "2026-10-07T11:58:52Z")

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Hi Wim,

Thanks for your answer, I will create an SR for this.