# Keys In Objects For Cloud Variables Cannot Contain a ".", Even Multidimensional Object Keys

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [April 9, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573 "2021-04-09T20:40:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![athornock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@athornock](https://community.thunkable.com/u/athornock)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573/1 "2021-04-09T20:40:45Z")

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Hi,  
I’m having an issue where objects that used to neatly store as cloud objects now no longer store. I have to convert them from and to Json. And they don’t look nearly as pretty in the real time database. Is anyone else having this issue? Why the change?

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**Author:** ![catsarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/catsarisky/32/100661_2.png) [@catsarisky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/catsarisky)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573/2 "2021-04-09T20:56:58Z")

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Ouch. Can you give an example of what’s changed? I have a bunch of cloud variables I’m using in the app I’m working on, and it doesn’t seem like I’m seeing any differences today… would like to know what’s broken so I can avoid it, for sure!

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**Author:** ![athornock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@athornock](https://community.thunkable.com/u/athornock)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573/3 "2021-04-09T21:04:20Z")

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Upon further testing it looks like it will accept objects, but it won’t accept “.” in any of the keys in a multidimensional object. I guess that isn’t a Thunkable bad, just something I didn’t realize, probably a Realtime database issue.

For example, this will not save as a cloud variable:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/8/286dd589d239d873a6b67029af4d7ed76aa2fe7c.png)

My objects weren’t updating, but in the third level object there was a period.

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/keys-in-objects-for-cloud-variables-cannot-contain-a-even-multidimensional-object-keys/1215573/4 "2024-11-08T13:25:26Z")

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