# Levels for naming topic/queue names **URL:** \ **Category:** Solace Event Broker\ **Tags:** topics, queue\ **Created:** [July 20, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848 "2021-07-20T06:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aravindh\_Ravi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/aravindh_ravi/32/1666_2.png) [@Aravindh\_Ravi](https://community.solace.com/u/Aravindh_Ravi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/1 "2021-07-20T06:59:38Z")
Is it always required to provide pattern of all 4 levels when we create a solace topic? ---
**Author:** ![ChristianHoltfurth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/christianholtfurth/32/995_2.png) [@ChristianHoltfurth](https://community.solace.com/u/ChristianHoltfurth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/2 "2021-07-20T07:59:04Z")
Hi @Aravindh_Ravi , Can you explain what you mean by 4 required levels and provide more context to your question? Without further background on your question, I’d answer simply that you don’t need to provide 4 levels. You can publish to pretty much any string value representing a topic in Solace. For example, I could publish to topics like - 1 - topic1 - a - a/b - a/b/c - myfirstlevel/mysecondlevel/mythirdlevel/myfourthlevel/myfifthlevel/mysixthlevel - andsoonandsoforth Similarly for queues, there’s no level requirement. You could simply name your queues: - queue1 - queue2 - my.queue ---
**Author:** ![amackenzie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/amackenzie/32/1168_2.png) [@amackenzie](https://community.solace.com/u/amackenzie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/3 "2021-07-20T08:06:01Z")
Hello, Solace topics are very flexible and there are very few requirements. It is not required to have multiple levels at all. For example `a` is a valid topic name in PubSub+. Levels and wildcards can be added to provide structure and flexibility to your application but such structure is not required. It’s more of a “best practice” for application design. ---
**Author:** ![TomF](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/tomf/32/1749_2.png) [@TomF](https://community.solace.com/u/TomF)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 8:07am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/4 "2021-07-20T08:07:03Z")
@Arvind_Mishra , further to what @ChristianHoltfurth said, topics in Solace are fully dynamic - that means a topic can have from 1 to 128 levels. **However** , you may have a _topic taxonomy_. That specifies what levels your topic should conform to. It may be that you have a topic taxonomy that specifies 4 levels. This would be unusual, I think - it’s rather a small number of levels. You can find out more about topic taxonomies[in this blog](https://solace.com/blog/topic-hierarchy-best-practices/). ---
**Author:** ![Aravindh\_Ravi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/aravindh_ravi/32/1666_2.png) [@Aravindh\_Ravi](https://community.solace.com/u/Aravindh_Ravi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/5 "2021-07-21T03:29:02Z")
Thanks all for the clarification ---
**Author:** ![Aaron](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/solace/user_avatar/community.solace.com/aaron/32/843_2.png) [@Aaron](https://community.solace.com/u/Aaron)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://community.solace.com/t/levels-for-naming-topic-queue-names/848/6 "2021-07-25T11:21:38Z")
@Aravindh_Ravi … where did you hear that Solace topics require 4 levels? Or how did you come to understand that? Thanks!