assignment_group usage in SDC

I am trying to use assignment groups to simplify my SDC file. But I am having problems getting them to work.

I have SDC code as follows (simplified obviously, the group will eventually add additional wildcard patterns in):

assignment_group "test" -remove ;# need this to avoid iterative workflow continually appending to the group
assignment_group "test" -add_member data_out\
set_multicycle_path -setup     -from "test" -to $main_clk 2

However when I load the SDC file, Timequest throws the following warning:

Warning: Ignored assignment set_multicycle_path

Warning: Argument -from with value test could not match any element of the following types: ( clk kpr reg port pin cell partition )

From what I can tell I am following Altera's example, but it is being ignored. An example from Altera's documentation is as follows:

assignment_group  "src_group" -add_member reg1
assignment_group  "src_group" -add_member reg2
set_multicycle_assignment 2 -setup -from "src_group"

for reference, the following code works correctly as I would expect:

set_multicycle_path -setup -from ] -to $main_clk 2

I have several wildcard patterns that I want to apply this same constraint to and I really don't want to have to copy/paste this line every time due to the potential for errors it has. Additionally this group will have some other constraints applied and again I want to have the list present in a single location and then reference that list in all the various constraints that need it.

Thank You.