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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

WordReason
CountCount is a reserved word as when used as a scalar it depicts the count of rows in the transactions.
  

Unsupported characters

CharacterNameReason
\BackslashBackslash is a common programming character.
;SemicolonThe semi-colon is reserved as when used in searches it defines multiples. For example, in a equal to search, it splits codes.
   

Reserved words and characters in Designer

Unsupported characters (these should not be used in names of measures, streams, properties or dimensions)

Character
\
@
!
?
~
|

Reserved words

Word
Code
Date
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