You create and configure dimensions using Developer Studio.

Dimensions and their hierarchy of values are created in Developer Studio Dimensions view, and are referenced in a dimension adapter component. See the Platform Services Forge Guide for more information about creating dimensions.

By default, dimension values are displayable for a record query result but not for a navigation query result. This behavior can be changed in Developer Studio.

Dimension values are ranked in either Developer Studio or the dval_ranks.xml file. Note that in either case, if dimension values are assigned ranks with values greater than 16,000,000, unpredictable ranking behavior may result.

No Dgidx or dgraph flags are necessary to enable displaying dimension values.