# How to not follow the conventions?

**URL:** https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-not-follow-the-conventions/2089
**Category:** Need Help
**Created:** [February 15, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-not-follow-the-conventions/2089 "2017-02-15T15:17:11Z")
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### Author: ![AlexFMS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/839c29/32.png) [@AlexFMS](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/AlexFMS)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-not-follow-the-conventions/2089/1 "2017-02-15T15:17:11Z")

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Hello the community,

CAKEPHP 3.4 - In my db, i have some columns’ names with “\_” but sometimes it’s not a way to make an association, just to make it easier to read. It causes some issues with bake, telling me " You should explicitly specify the “propertyName” option"  
But i don’t get how i can indicate when the name of a column is NOT to define an association ? For example to say the association only works for “\_id”

I searched in the cookbook but it’s not clear… Can you help me please ?

Thanks a lot !!!

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### Author: ![raul338](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/raul338/32/69_2.png) [@raul338](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/raul338)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-not-follow-the-conventions/2089/2 "2017-02-22T02:52:13Z")

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If you want to use bake, you **must** follow the conventions.  
Otherwise you have to create the file from scratch.

Bake a really simple table (3 columns, id, some int, some varchar/date, etc) and use that as a template