Naming rules

FIELD NAME

CASE SENSITIVE?

TO USER     TO SYSTEM

EXAMPLE

COHORT

Y

UPPER

Round3 or ROUND3

(but not at the same time)

ROUND

Y

UPPER

INSTRUMENT

Y

UPPER

SECTION_NAME

Y

UPPER

USERNAME

UPPER

UPPER

CLEE, LEE

 

 

 

 

QNAME

UPPER

UPPER

YHHI-BEGIN

SAVE_SYMBOL_NAME

UPPER

UPPER

 

SYMBOL_NAME

UPPER

UPPER

Defined in qtext

TEXT_XXX

Y

Y

prompt, plain text, etc

 

 

 

 

TITLE

UPPER

UPPER

 

TITLE_SHORT

UPPER

UPPER

 

PAPI_QNAME

?

 

 

AREA_NAME

Y

UPPER

Sex or SEX (not both)

 

 

 

 

HELP_NAME

UPPER

UPPER

 

PICK_NAME

UPPER

UPPER

 

RANGE_NAME

UPPER

UPPER

 

 

 

 

 

ROSTER_NAME

UPPER

 

 

ROSTER_FIELD_NAME

UPPER

 

 

ROSTER_COLUMN_HEADER

Y

Y

(for display)

 

Name

# of words

Composing rules for new instruments

COHORT

M

 

ROUND

M

 

INSTRUMENT

M

 

SECTION_NAME

M

 

QNAME

1

characters, numbers, _, - (Rule 1)

 

 

 

SAVE_SYMBOL_NAME

1

Rule 1 + [, ], *, ^, {, }, (, )

SYMBOL_NAME

special rules

 

 

 

PAPI_QNAME

1

 

AREA_NAME

M

 

 

 

 

HELP_NAME

1

Rule 1

PICK_NAME

1

Rule 1, (, )

RANGE_NAME

1

whatever

ROSTER_NAME

1

Rule 1

ROSTER_FIELD_NAME

1

Rule 1

ROSTER_COLUMN_HEADER

1

whatever

 

 

 

USERNAME

1

Rule 1 (?)