Dimensions describe an organization’s data and usually contain groups of related members. Examples of dimensions are Account, Entity, and Period. Financial Management supplies eight system-defined dimensions and enables you to populate up to four custom dimensions that you can apply to accounts.
Dimension members are arranged in hierarchies. Upper-level members are called parent members, and a member immediately below a parent member is referred to as the child of a parent member. All members below a parent are referred to as descendants. The bottom-level hierarchy members are called base-level members.
The following sections describe the system-defined dimensions. For information on setting dimension attributes, see the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Architect Administrator’s Guide if you are using Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect, Fusion Edition, or the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Administrator’s Guide if you are using Classic Application Administration.