There are several words and characters that should be avoided in Phocas, e.g., when naming measures etc. This is because in software development, these words or characters typically have a specific meaning that may affect results.
Reserved words in measures
Word
Reason
Count
Count is a reserved word as when used as a scalar it depicts the count of rows in the transactions.
Trans
Trans is reserved for internal usage.
Unsupported characters
Character
Name
Reason
\
Backslash
Backslash is a common programming character.
;
Semicolon
The semi-colon is reserved as when used in searches it defines multiples. For example, in a equal to search, it splits codes.
*
Asterisk
The asterisk is reserved for wildcard searches, and shouldn't be used in raw data.
Reserved characters and words in Designer
Unsupported characters
These should not be used in names of measures, streams, properties or dimensions:
\
@
!
?
~
|
*
Reserved words
Code
Date
Trial Balance (for streams only)
Cash Flow (for streams only)
Reserved characters in Sync
Character
Name
Reason
.
Period or full stop/full point
Use of "." (period character) in a file name can cause an application (i.e. like Sync) to unexpectedly recognize a file with an unsupported file type suffix. For example, a file named "example_filename.txt" might be correctly recognized as a text file. But a file named "example.filename.txt" could result in an unsupported file type error, if the application (such as Sync) does not support a file type of ".filename".