Case Sensitivity
With the few important exceptions noted below, the software powering FTE Tree is case-sensitive. This means that upper and lower case versions of the same letter or word are considered different. Throughout the application, we frequently enforce unique names for elements such as departments in your department tree. Therefore, it's important to note that the 'administration' department in a case-sensitive scenario is not the same as the 'Administration' department.
There are two key places where we do not enforce case-sensitivity:
- Email addresses: This is required to help protect the integrity of your account because email systems are generally case-insensitive, and we would never want someone to be able to use your email address by simply capitalizing a random letter.
- User names: Although we use your current email address as a username, there may be some instances where a username is generated behind the scenes. We enforce case-insensitivity on usernames to protect your account for similar reasons as your email address.