Reserved names

[pandabrowski]

Hi,

I'm doing a setup of the basic model and I have encountered error with the domain name: "Reserved name".

to avoid future problems, could you provide me with a list of reserved names and other limitations for the naming of the objects? In documentation I've found only reserved words for the projects.

thanks, RD

[TimGarrod]

Hi @pandabrowski  - this is in Qlik Compose for Data Warehouses correct?   Are you saying you created an Attribute domain with the name "Reserved name" ?

[pandabrowski]

Hi @TimGarrod 

nope, it is the error I've encountered. The name of the column was 'id'  🙂

[TimGarrod · Accepted solution]

@pandabrowski  - thanks.  The only reserved column names are the following.  Every physical table in the dw gets the following columns - 

• ID  - surrogate key managed by Compose
• RUNNO_INSERT - the ETL runno that the record is inserted
• RUNNO_UPDATE - the ETL runno that the record was updated
• FD - From date for Type 2.  The name of this column can be altered in Project settings if you'd prefer to have FROM_DATE, EFF_DT, EFFECTIVE_DATE or whatever your preference is.  The name you put in the project settings will be "reserved". 
• TD - To date / end date for type 2. The name of this column can be altered in Project settings if you'd prefer to have TO_DATE , END_DT etc  or whatever your preference is.  The name you put in the project settings will be "reserved". 

Note - if you have Discovered a set of entities from source or landing that have "ID" as the column name - you can simply rename the Attribute Domain and the new name will cascade (for any entity where you haven't manually overwritten the attribute names).   For example - you can rename to "src_ID" and attributes will be renamed in the model.    If you do this - the mappings will retain their mapping to the new column name. 

Hope that helps!

[pandabrowski]

Thanks, I renamed the object, but as I'm developing the source model i wanted to know which names should i avoid.