Required Properties for Category Dimensions

The category dimension defines the groupings in which you store information in your application. Typical categories would be Budget, Actual, Forecast, and so on. Any dimension that is assigned the type C is a category dimension. Each application can have only one category-type dimension.

Features

A category dimension has the following required properties:

Property Name	Description
`EVDESCRIPTION`	A user-defined description for the member. Can be up to 50 characters and does not need to be unique. It cannot contain double quotation marks ("). This description appears in the language specified in My Settings within Interface for the Web (see My Settings). For information about loading a list of languages into the system, see Data Management for the NetWeaver platform or Data Management for the Microsoft platform..
`YEAR`	Used to assign a YEAR to the category, to be used with the `EVGET` and `EVTIM` functions in reporting. For more information, see Reports and Input Schedules.

Property Name

Description

EVDESCRIPTION

A user-defined description for the member. Can be up to 50 characters and does not need to be unique. It cannot contain double quotation marks ("). This description appears in the language specified in My Settings within Interface for the Web (see My Settings). For information about loading a list of languages into the system, see Data Management for the NetWeaver platform or Data Management for the Microsoft platform..

YEAR

Used to assign a YEAR to the category, to be used with the EVGET and EVTIM functions in reporting. For more information, see Reports and Input Schedules.

More Information

Member Behavior Using Dimension Properties

Business Rules Management for the Microsoft platform or Business Rules Management for SAP NetWeaver