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FM's avatar
FM
New Contributor III
2 years ago

Restrictions on member Default Description

Hello,

Other than the 200 character limit, are there any other restrictions imposed on the Default Description for a dimension member? Thank you for your time.

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  • FM's avatar
    FM
    New Contributor III
    2 years ago

    Thank you MikeG! You make a really good point about the special characters potentially causing issues with the business rule execution. I am going to weight that in and might end up excluding them from the text input as it might just be better that way.

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    MikeG
    Contributor III
    2 years ago

    Hi FM I'm not aware of any restrictions.  You can use #, $, /, \, and special characters but that does create a bit of a pickle when you're writing Business Rules.  If you're ever passing the member description anywhere for say an XFBR, you need to include hard brackets [ ] so as to not break code execution.   I checked and wasn't aware the limit is 200 characters, but you are correct.  This is a view from the AuditMember table that shows the Description field is nvarchar with length 200.  Also, didn't know the Member Name had a length of 500 limit:

    Hope this helps,

     

    • ptran's avatar
      ptran
      New Contributor III
      19 days ago

      how did you generate that table?

      • MikeG's avatar
        MikeG
        Contributor III
        18 days ago

        Table Data Manager utility, it is a MarketPlace download.  TDM.  I use it to manage ancillary tables but you can also review the schema of existing OS database tables using that utility.