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Naming conventions
Names of variables, categories and other elements of a variable, and filters must conform to the following rules:
The first character must be a letter or the _ (underscore) symbol.
A letter is any English letter character (a-z, A-Z) or an alphabetic character from another language.
Subsequent characters can be: letters; decimal numbers from either Basic Latin or other national languages; or the @, $, #, or _ symbols.
Embedded spaces and special characters are not allowed.
Reserved words
Before UNICOM Intelligence version 6.0.1, the following keywords were reserved. Starting with version 6.0.1, the following words can be used for the names of variables, elements, or filters.
Add
All
Alter
Alternatives
Area
As
Asc
Ascending
Avg
Axis
Base
Block
Boolean
By
Categorical
Categories
Column
Compound
Contexts
Count
Create
Date
Dateonly
Default
Define
Delete
Desc
Descending
Double
Drop
Elementtype
End
Errors
Exclusive
Exec
Expand
Expression
False
Fields
Fix
From
Grid
Group
Having
Hdata
Helperfields
Info
Insert
Into
Item
Label
Labeltypes
Languages
Layouttemplate
Lcl
Level
Long
Loop
Metadata
Max
Min
Namespace
Nocasedata
Nonamespace
Null
Object
On
Order
Other
Otherspecify
Parentquestion
Precision
Properties
Protected
Questionfullname
Questioninfo
Questionname
Questiontype
Ran
Randomize
Rev
Reverse
Rot
Rotate
Row
Select
Set
Stddev
Step
Sum
Style
Table
Text
Timeonly
True
Truncate
Type
Update
Usagetype
Use
Validation
Value
Values
Where
With
See also
New Variable dialog