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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: steen.jensen on May 17, 2018, 08:30:30 am

Title: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: steen.jensen on May 17, 2018, 08:30:30 am: As a non-programmer I have possible made some "sink-holes" for my self.
I have created Tagged-Values names with space, hyphen that I have trouble with in SQL-scripts.
Are there any other characters I should avoid? Underscore, National char as öäå etc etc
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: Nizam on May 17, 2018, 09:06:46 am: There are no standards per say, You are right, we always stick to the code / sql safe naming convention (avoiding spaces or special characters). Underscores are safe though. Some gurus in this forum might have listed down the specific characters that are sure fail.
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: VKN on May 17, 2018, 12:48:24 pm: Must avoid ::
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: RobCDeJong on May 17, 2018, 10:13:54 pm: The use of special characters is mainly defined by the underlying database. If you use a database/driver that supports unicode, EA works fine with special characters.
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: Eve on May 18, 2018, 08:43:11 am: The other suggestion that I'd make is that using valid xml attribute names (https://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-4e-errata#E09) will help if you're wanting to export xmi (although EA will round trip the name with itself)

Short summary, don't start with 'xml', or a number. Avoid punctuation except ':', '.', '-', '_'. Don't include spaces.
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: steen.jensen on May 20, 2018, 08:37:00 am: What about mix o capital & small letters in tagged value names??
Title: Re: Naming standard for Tagged Values, so different scripts works
Post by: qwerty on May 20, 2018, 04:02:46 pm: IIRC case sensitivity (e.g. whether "Taggedvalue" and "TaggedValue" are seen as being different) depends on the database you use.

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