Full stop in cube name breaks perspectives?

[Paul Segal]

I've just come across an issue in Perspectives where Pick and Edit Formula from the TM1 menu break if you include a . in a cube name. So, SERVER: CUBE.DESCRIPTION will truncate to SERVER:CUBE, which is obviously not ideal. Running 10.2.2 FP2 on Excel 2010 with up to date Perspectives. Is this old news and I've just not come across it before?

[declanr]

Is this old news and I've just not come across it before?

It might be as I've always used an underscore as a result of encountering issues with full stops... but then again I can't remember what the issues I encountered were and that doesn't really ring a bell - I think the issues I found may have been more server file side e.g. when I tried to do certain things "outside" TM1 with "My.Cube.cub" etc.

I certainly feel for anyone if it is a new thing and they'd have to go through updating entire naming conventions.

[tomok]

I never use "." or "," in any TM1 object names. I don't use "." because it is a separator for web addresses and don't use "," because it is the most common delimiter for text files. Guess I've been just been lucky. I only use letters, numerals, and underscore.

[rmackenzie]

I never use "." or "," in any TM1 object names. I don't use "." because it is a separator for web addresses and don't use "," because it is the most common delimiter for text files. Guess I've been just been lucky. I only use letters, numerals, and underscore.

IMO that's the best practice approach. I've seen usage of $, % and & cause problems on TM1 Web so I would avoid those too.

[gtonkin]

Just saw this article which may be useful in terms of reserved characters and do's and dont's.