Dimension associations enable you to assign security classes and currency to dimensions and dimension members. For example, for an entity dimension, you can create associations to the security classes and currency dimensions. Associations are created at the dimension level and associations are inherited by all members under the dimension. Dimension associations are created in the Dimension Library. See Creating Dimension Associations.

Dimension associations are used to denote the inter-relationships between the dimensions within the Shared Library and applications. For example, within Consolidation applications there are Account dimension properties that reference security class, custom dimension intersections (<DimensionAliasName>TopMember), and so on, which directly relate to other dimensions. Dimension Associations enable you to define the relationships between these properties and the other dimensions which then enables you to pick the value directly from the referenced dimension.

An example of associating dimensions for Planning applications, is the Start Period and End Period properties of the Scenario dimension would have a dimension association with the Period dimension. The Start Year and End Year property of the Scenario dimension would have a dimension association with the Year dimension.

A dimension association is created for all properties where the property value refers to a member of another dimension. Once you create the association, you need to activate it in the application.