The dimension values tagged on an Oracle Commerce record can be displayed with the record.

Each record’s dimension values can be displayed when the record appears in a record list or on an individual record page. The latter case is the more common use of this feature, because record properties are also available for display and are less expensive to use for this purpose.

A common purpose for displaying an individual record’s dimension values is to enable the end user to navigate to a new record set based on a subset of dimension values displayed for the current record. For example, an apparel application might have a record page for shirt ABC that displays the shirt’s dimension values:

Sleeve=short
fabric=100% cotton
Style=Oxford
Size=L

Each value has a checkbox next to it. Users can then check the boxes for the dimension values in which they are interested; for example:

Sleeve=short
Style=Oxford
Size=L

When the user checks these dimension values, a record set is returned that includes shirt ABC along with all other Large, short-sleeve, Oxford shirts (regardless of whether the shirt fabric is 100% cotton).