New Dimensions

You add dimensions to an environment to make them available for use by its models.

To add a dimension to an environment, you can create a new dimension or make a copy an existing dimension.

Features

When adding a dimension using the New Dimension wizard, you supply the following information. This information is also useful when copying or modifying a dimension.

Field

More Information

ID

Dimension IDs are not case sensitive and display in the case you typed. They must be unique regardless of case.

You can use any ID you want for a dimension as long as you follow these guidelines:

  • Do not use special characters such as accented characters or Cyrillic fonts in IDs.

  • Enter a maximum of 16 characters and without single quotation marks ('), double quotation marks ("), back slashes (\), or ampersands (&).

    Dimension IDs cannot contain a dash (-), but can contain an underscore (_).

  • Do not begin a dimension ID with a number as its first character.

  • Do not use the following names: App, AppAccess, AvlObject, CategoryAccess, CollabDoc, CollabIcons, CollabRecipient, CollabSupport, CollabType, DBVERSION, Defaults, DesktopStyleDef, Dimension, DrillDef, DTIParam, Function, Formula, Group, InvestParam, MemberAccess, MessageLog, Packages, PageDef, Permission, PublishedBooks, Rate, ReportParam, SectionDef, Status, StatusCode, TaskAccess, User, UserGroup, UserPackages, UserPovDef, WebContents, SOURCE, SIGNEDDATA

Description

Create dimension descriptions with a maximum of 255 characters.

Type

The dimension type allows you to organize data within models based on the type of information included.

See Dimension Types.

Referential Integrity

Referential Integrity validates the properties of the dimension with the dimension member IDs of a different dimension.

When you process the dimension, the system checks the values of the Referential Integrity property (see Dimension Processing). Validation does not complete if they do not pass validation.

See the following table for the dimension validation rules.

Dimension properties

You can assign new properties to a dimension.

See Dimension Properties.

Dimension Validation Rules

Dimension Type ID - Description

Reference Type ID - Description

Property ID

Reference Property ID

A - ACCOUNT

A - ACCOUNT

RATETYPE

ID

C - CATEGORY

T - TIME

YEAR

YEAR

E - ENTITY

R - CURRENCY

CURRENCY

ID

I - INTERCOMPANY

E - ENTITY

ENTITY

ID

Activities

You can create a new dimension in the Administration screen by choosing Start of the navigation pathDimensions Next navigation step New DimensionEnd of the navigation path under the Dimensions and Models section, and then entering the required data.