What special characters are allowed in names?

  • Most names in Ion Reporter™ Software, including names used for analyses, samples, custom analysis workflows, users, other text fields, and BAM files that are used to import samples into the software, allow these characters:

    • Alphanumeric characters: A-Z a-z 0-9

    • Underscore: _

    • Space: ' '

    • Dash: -

    • Period: .

      The period character (.) is not allowed at the beginning of the names the following elements: Project name, Workflow name, Sample name, any analysis Workflow Preset name, Analysis name, CNV baseline name.

    If unsupported characters are entered, the field appears in red with a bold outline.