Restrictions for Dimensions, Members, Aliases, and Forms

When naming dimensions, members, and aliases, follow these rules:

  • For dimensions, members, or aliases, use no more than 80 characters.

  • Do not use HTML tags in member names, dimension names, aliases, and descriptions.

  • Do not use quotation marks, brackets, backslashes, or tabs. Brackets are permitted but not recommended in block storage outlines. They cause errors when converting to aggregate storage outlines.

  • To begin dimension or member names, do not use these characters:

    • at signs

    • backslashes

    • brackets

    • commas

    • dashes, hyphens, or minus signs

    • equal signs

    • less than signs

    • parentheses

    • periods

    • plus signs

    • quotation marks

    • underscores

    • vertical bars

  • Do not place spaces at the beginning or end of names. Such spaces are ignored.

  • Do not use forward slashes in member names.

  • For time periods in custom calendars, do not use spaces in prefixes.

  • Do not use these words as dimension or member names:

    • Calculation script commands, operators, and keywords.

    • Function names and function arguments.

    • Names of other dimensions and members (unless the member is shared).

    • If Dynamic Time Series is enabled, do not use History, Year, Season, Period, Quarter, Month, Week, or Day.

    • These words:

      • ALL

      • AND

      • ASSIGN

      • AVERAGE

      • CALC

      • CALCMBR

      • COPYFORWARD

      • CROSSDIM

      • CURMBRNAME

      • DIM

      • DIMNAME

      • DIV

      • DYNAMIC

      • EMPTYPARM

      • EQ

      • EQOP

      • EXCEPT

      • EXP

      • EXPERROR

      • FLOAT

      • FUNCTION

      • GE

      • GEN

      • GENRANGE

      • GROUP

      • GT

      • ID

      • IDERROR

      • INTEGER

      • LE

      • LEVELRANGE

      • LOCAL

      • LOOPBLOCK

      • LOOPPARMS

      • LT

      • MBR

      • MBRNAME

      • MBRONLY

      • MINUS

      • MISSING

      • MUL

      • MULOP

      • NE

      • NON

      • NONINPUT

      • NOT

      • OR

      • PAREN

      • PARENPARM

      • PERCENT

      • PLUS

      • RELOP

      • SET

      • SKIPBOTH

      • SKIPMISSING

      • SKIPNONE

      • SKIPZERO

      • STATUS

      • TO

      • TOLOCALRATE

      • TRAILMISSING

      • TRAILSUM

      • TYPE

      • UMINUS

      • UPPER

      • VARORXMBR

      • XMBRONLY

      • $$UNIVERSE$$

      • #MISSING

      • #MI