<p>I found the solution, one of my Seq IDs had a <code>,</code> in one of the meta-data fields, this appears to have thrown off the software and all subsequent Seq IDs could not be auto-configured.</p>
<p>Simply removing the <code>,</code> solved the issue.</p>

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<p>I'm using <a href="https://beast.community/tip_dates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BEAUti</a> as part of my pipeline and the sequence names include <code>|</code> to separate the metadata fields - with culture date being at the very end.</p>
<p>When I attempt to auto-configure the tip dates on the sequences however, some of the sequences will not update their date(raw value) and if I double-click and manually change the date it will then reverse back to 0.</p>
<p>Any idea what may be preventing me from manually correcting the dates or auto-config to ignore the culture date after the last <code>|</code>?</p>

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BEAUti not accepting taxa tip dates
# BEAUti not accepting taxa tip dates

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-13)

I'm using [BEAUti](https://beast.community/tip_dates) as part of my pipeline and the sequence names include `|` to separate the metadata fields - with culture date being at the very end.

When I attempt to auto-configure the tip dates on the sequences however, some of the sequences will not update their date(raw value) and if I double-click and manually change the date it will then reverse back to 0.

Any idea what may be preventing me from manually correcting the dates or auto-config to ignore the culture date after the last `|`?

**Tags:** multiple-sequence-alignment, beast

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2021-07-14. Score: 1

I found the solution, one of my Seq IDs had a `,` in one of the meta-data fields, this appears to have thrown off the software and all subsequent Seq IDs could not be auto-configured.

Simply removing the `,` solved the issue.


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