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acapone
October 3, 2024

Is Member a Reserved Word

  • October 3, 2024
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While not on the list of Reserved Words, I was wondering if Member should be avoided in Dimensions and Dimension Names? Could using it cause any unwanted downstream effects?

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MarcusH
October 7, 2024

I always avoid using words/strings that have a meaning in the application. 'Member' might not be a reserved word but it is the name of a class object in OneStream and I would not use it. We recently upgraded from V6.8 to V8 and there were a number of errors raised by the .NET engine which were caused by variable names being the same as objects. I know it's not exactly the same but it took a long time to work out what the problem was because the error message was not helpful. If a later version of .NET or OneStream does object to a metadata member being called 'Member', it would create a lot of difficulties for an upgrade.

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