diff --git a/src/components/SpruceForm/customFormats.ts b/src/components/SpruceForm/customFormats.ts
index 3edd4956ad..38e92f383e 100644
--- a/src/components/SpruceForm/customFormats.ts
+++ b/src/components/SpruceForm/customFormats.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const {
   validateEmail,
   validateJira,
   validateJiraURL,
+  validateNoSpecialCharacters,
   validatePercentage,
   validateRegexp,
   validateSlack,
@@ -13,16 +14,16 @@ const {
 } = validators;
 
 export const customFormats = (jiraHost: string) => ({
+  noSpecialCharacters: validateNoSpecialCharacters,
   // Permit empty string but disallow whitespace
   noSpaces: /^$|^\S+$/,
-  // Permit url
-  validURL: validateURL,
-  validURLTemplate: validateURLTemplate,
   validDuration: validateDuration,
-  validPercentage: validatePercentage,
+  validEmail: validateEmail,
   validJiraTicket: validateJira,
   validJiraURL: (url: string) => validateJiraURL(jiraHost, url),
+  validPercentage: validatePercentage,
   validRegex: validateRegexp,
   validSlack: validateSlack,
-  validEmail: validateEmail,
+  validURL: validateURL,
+  validURLTemplate: validateURLTemplate,
 });
diff --git a/src/components/SpruceForm/errors.ts b/src/components/SpruceForm/errors.ts
index 3eea1a1a14..3776466e6c 100644
--- a/src/components/SpruceForm/errors.ts
+++ b/src/components/SpruceForm/errors.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { AjvError } from "@rjsf/core";
+import { allowedSymbols } from "utils/validators";
 
 export enum Errors {
   Invisible = "invisible",
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ export const transformErrors = (errors: AjvError[]) =>
           };
         case "format":
           switch (error.params.format) {
+            case "noSpecialCharacters":
+              return {
+                ...error,
+                message: `Value can only contain numbers, letters and these symbols: ${allowedSymbols}.`,
+              };
             case "noSpaces":
               return {
                 ...error,
diff --git a/src/constants/routes.ts b/src/constants/routes.ts
index 257538b0b7..6f8305ea0e 100644
--- a/src/constants/routes.ts
+++ b/src/constants/routes.ts
@@ -227,11 +227,12 @@ export const getProjectSettingsRoute = (
   projectId: string,
   tab?: ProjectSettingsTabRoutes
 ) => {
-  if (!tab) {
-    return `${paths.project}/${projectId}/${PageNames.Settings}`;
-  }
-
-  return `${paths.project}/${projectId}/${PageNames.Settings}/${tab}`;
+  // Encode projectId for backwards compatibilty.
+  // Encoding can be removed when all projectIDs
+  // are URL friendly withou encoding
+  const encodedProjectId = encodeURIComponent(projectId);
+  const root = `${paths.project}/${encodedProjectId}/${PageNames.Settings}`;
+  return tab ? `${root}/${tab}` : root;
 };
 
 export const getDistroSettingsRoute = (
diff --git a/src/pages/projectSettings/sharedFormSchema.ts b/src/pages/projectSettings/sharedFormSchema.ts
index 3ffe662eec..f58e6d270d 100644
--- a/src/pages/projectSettings/sharedFormSchema.ts
+++ b/src/pages/projectSettings/sharedFormSchema.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ export const projectName = {
     type: "string" as "string",
     title: "Project Name",
     minLength: 1,
-    format: "noSpaces",
+    format: "noSpecialCharacters",
   },
   uiSchema: {
     "ui:data-cy": "project-name-input",
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export const projectId = {
   schema: {
     type: "string" as "string",
     title: "Project ID",
-    format: "noSpaces",
+    format: "noSpecialCharacters",
   },
   uiSchema: {
     "ui:data-cy": "project-id-input",
diff --git a/src/pages/projectSettings/tabs/GeneralTab/getFormSchema.tsx b/src/pages/projectSettings/tabs/GeneralTab/getFormSchema.tsx
index c21b3a230c..76d97f8e80 100644
--- a/src/pages/projectSettings/tabs/GeneralTab/getFormSchema.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/projectSettings/tabs/GeneralTab/getFormSchema.tsx
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export const getFormSchema = (
                   title: "Identifier",
                   default: "",
                   minLength: 1,
+                  format: "noSpecialCharacters",
                 },
               }),
               batchTime: {
diff --git a/src/utils/validators/index.ts b/src/utils/validators/index.ts
index a786fa90b6..9def5f64c9 100644
--- a/src/utils/validators/index.ts
+++ b/src/utils/validators/index.ts
@@ -132,16 +132,30 @@ const validateRegexp = (regexp: string): boolean => {
   }
 };
 
+const allowedSymbols = "-._~()";
+
+/**
+ * `validateNoSpecialCharacters` tests if a provided string contains no special characters
+ * @param str - The string to test.
+ * @returns - true if the string has no special characters and false otherwise
+ */
+const validateNoSpecialCharacters = (str: string): boolean => {
+  const noSpecialCharacters = new RegExp(`^[0-9a-zA-Z${allowedSymbols}]*$`);
+  return noSpecialCharacters.test(str);
+};
+
 export {
+  allowedSymbols,
   validateDuration,
   validateEmail,
   validateJira,
   validateJiraURL,
+  validateNoSpecialCharacters,
   validateObjectId,
   validatePercentage,
   validateRegexp,
-  validateSSHPublicKey,
   validateSlack,
+  validateSSHPublicKey,
   validateURL,
   validateURLTemplate,
 };
diff --git a/src/utils/validators/validators.test.ts b/src/utils/validators/validators.test.ts
index 061ca8a63f..45ad6277e7 100644
--- a/src/utils/validators/validators.test.ts
+++ b/src/utils/validators/validators.test.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
 import {
-  validateRegexp,
+  validateJira,
+  validateJiraURL,
+  validateNoSpecialCharacters,
   validateObjectId,
+  validateRegexp,
+  validateSlack,
   validateSSHPublicKey,
-  validateJiraURL,
-  validateJira,
   validateURL,
-  validateSlack,
 } from ".";
 
+describe("validateNoSpecialCharacters", () => {
+  it("returns true if string has no special characters", () => {
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("")).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("helloworld-_~)(")).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("hello-world123")).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("helloworld.123")).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("hellowo~rld.123")).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("helloWorld123")).toBe(true);
+
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters(" ")).toBe(false);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("he/lloworld")).toBe(false);
+    expect(validateNoSpecialCharacters("hello%world")).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("validateObjectId", () => {
   it("validates object ids", () => {
     expect(validateObjectId("5f74d99ab2373627c047c5e5")).toBeTruthy();