Dimension Naming Restrictions

When naming Consolidation dimensions, follow these rules:

  • Names can include up to 80 characters.

  • Names cannot start with an underscore, any whitespace character, or any non-alphanumeric character. After the first character, names can have any whitespace character, any non-alphanumeric character, and any alphanumeric character including the underscore.

  • Do not include these words in dimension names

    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 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 TO TOLOCALRATE TRAILMISSING TRAILSUM UMINUS UPPER VARORXMBR XMBRONLY $$UNIVERSE$$ #MISSING #MI