Hi, can anyone tell me why underscores and caps ar...
# prefect-uid
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:14 PMHi, can anyone tell me why underscores and caps are not accepted for block or variable names in the UI when the docs say that they should be allowed? Maybe a prefect setting I am missing? thx.
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Jenny
11/22/2023, 12:20 PMHi Dan! Sounds like there’s a mismatch between the ui and the docs. Can you share the page of the docs you’re referring to? Thanks!
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Dan
11/22/2023, 12:24 PMhttps://docs.prefect.io/2.13.1/api-ref/prefect/blocks/system/ - the examples given have upper case names and underscores
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:24 PMAlso same issue with variable names - https://docs.prefect.io/2.13.1/guides/variables/?h=variables
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:25 PMSays explicitly variable names can use underscores but once again the UI does not allow this
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:26 PMAnd again for variables, why not allow upper-case variable names like you would for environment variables?
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:26 PMI have a lot of variables in configuration in code which I am happy to store as blocks or variables in prefect - seems I always have to remap the character sets
Dan
11/22/2023, 12:29 PMApologies I checked again and for variables underscores are allowed but not uppercase
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Jenny
11/22/2023, 12:32 PMOk cool. Thanks for sharing. Let me take a look and get back to you
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Dan
11/22/2023, 12:36 PMMuch appreciated Jenny
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Jenny
11/22/2023, 7:20 PMThanks for the patience. I had a quick look and I think the doc examples are using uppercase there as a placeholder not an example. "BLOCK_NAME" is representing where you'd put your block name! I can see that's confusing though.
The actual variables section of the docs does a pretty good job of setting out that names should adhere to traditional naming conventions: https://docs.prefect.io/latest/guides/variables/?h=variables
I can see an argument for adjusting those rules if there's a user demand for more flexibility. I'd encourage you to open an issue in the prefect repo so we can track interest in it
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