Hyperion Dimension & Member Naming Rules.

Question

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what is Hyperion dimension and member naming rules?
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Answer 1

When naming applications in Essbase, follow these rules:
● For non-Unicode mode applications and databases, use no more than 8 bytes; for Unicodemode applications and databases, use no more than 30 characters.
● Do not use spaces.
● Do not use these special characters:
❍ asterisks
❍ backslashes
❍ brackets
❍ colons
❍ commas
❍ equal signs
❍ greater than signs
❍ less than signs
❍ periods
❍ plus signs
❍ question marks
❍ quotation marks (double and single)
❍ semicolons
❍ slashes
❍ tabs
❍ vertical bars
● For Planning application names in relational database environments, do not use extended characters (except for underscores).
● For aggregate storage databases, do not use DEFAULT, LOG, METADATA, or TEMP as application names.
Also, avoid use some of the reserve words that smartlist uses:
abstract, assert, boolean, break, byte, case, catch, char, class,
const, continue, default, do, double, else, enum, extends, false,
final, finally, float, for, if, goto, implements, import,
instanceof, int, interface, long, native, new, null, private,
protected, public, return, short, static, strictfp, super, switch,
synchronized, this, throw, throws, transient, true, try, void,
volatile, while.
Or not to use dynamic time series (DTS) codes:
❍ H-T-D: History-to-date
❍ Y-T-D: Year-to-date
❍ S-T-D: Season-to-date
❍ P-T-D: Period-to-date
❍ Q-T-D: Quarter-to-date
❍ M-T-D: Month-to-date
❍ W-T-D: Week-to-date
❍ D-T-D: Day-to-date
When naming dimensions, members, and aliases, follow these rules:
● For non-Unicode mode dimensions, members, or aliases, use no more than 80 bytes. For Unicode-mode dimensions, members, or aliases, use no more than 80 characters.
● Distinguish between upper and lower case only if case sensitivity is enabled.
● 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. Essbase ignores such spaces.
● Do not use forward slashes in member names.
● For time periods in custom calendars, do not use spaces in prefixes.