Could not list menu items in the dropdown inside architect any more

urbanekv · February 10, 2026, 1:49pm

What version of Origam are you using: 2025.10.2.4117

I was trying to upgrade Origam from 2025.4 to 2025.10 and then opened the Origam Architect and added a menu binding to a dropdown. I tried to expand dropdown to select a menu item to bind the lookup to.

I was expecting it will list all the menu items.

Instead I’ve got an error: Illegal characters in path

I investigated the error further and find out it is caused by System.IO.Path.Combine() function
that don’t like "<> characters (probably more are problematic).

So this can break (minor) architect functionality on upgrade. Architect also allows add these characters into Name property in 2025.10 version.

github.com/origam/origam

backend/Origam.Schema/AbstractSchemaItem.cs

51bdaa235


      
          }
          
          private string GetPath(ISchemaItem item)
          {
              if (ParentItem == null)
              {
                  return Name;
              }
              else
              {
                  return System.IO.Path.Combine(ParentItem.Path, Name);
              }
          }
          
          private ISchemaItemCollection GetChildItems(ISchemaItem parentItem)
          {
              ISchemaItemCollection col = SchemaItemCollection.Create(
                  this.PersistenceProvider,
                  this.RootProvider,
                  parentItem
              );

bug was injected probably while solving FIX: Architect showed file misplaced error for all model files 2025.10 by JindrichSusen · Pull Request #3675 · origam/origam · GitHub

tvavrda · February 10, 2026, 2:04pm

This function returns a path inside the model tree, not an actual file system path. Therefore it should not use Path.Combine.

washi · February 10, 2026, 4:37pm