ALLOWED CHARACTERS IN MEMBER ID

Dear Experts,
I have worked in previous projects.
In those projects, others consultants recommended the following for members ID:
- Use ONLY capital letters
- Not use special characters
- Not use spaces
- Not use comma
I would like to ask you if there is an oficial list of allowed characters for members ID (in SAP BPC NW 7.5) or well known list of not allowe characters.
I also would like to ask you if this restrictions are valid nowadays and if you could provide another restrictions.
Finally, the restrictions applies also for properties?
Thanks in advance.
Manuel
Edited by: MANUEL PEREZ TIRIBELLI on Aug 31, 2010 3:57 PM

Hi Manuel,
Please look at the below link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/cd/30ffa271b4463b8cc2c8b671fb0459/content.htm
The above link will confirm the last 3 recommendations.
The first recommendation comes from the fact that BPC NW is case sensitive, which means that EXTSALES is different from ExtSales. So, it is always better to maintain it in either smallcase or in uppercase. Basically, to maintain the same standard accross.
These restrictions are for the ID of the dimension table. So, it is not for the other fields in the table (properties, description).
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