The Oracle Commerce record object returned by the MDEX Engine encapsulates information about dimensions that have been tagged to the Oracle Commerce record.

The following diagram shows the structure of a generic Oracle Commerce record object:

This diagram illustrates that Oracle Commerce record objects contain all the information associated with an Oracle Commerce record, including:

You can use the dimension hierarchy information in an Oracle Commerce record object to build follow-on navigation queries. For example, you can incorporate Find Similar functionality into your application by building a navigation query from the tagged dimension values for the current record.