1. Administering and Working with Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management
  2. Creating and Managing Applications
  3. Managing Applications
  4. Managing Dimensions
  5. Dimension Overview
  6. Dimension Top Levels

Dimension Top Levels

The top levels of dimensions impact usability:

  • Design for all data in first hierarchy to roll up to top of dimension

  • Use "Total", "All", and "No" members in the primary hierarchy

    • The "Total" member houses all data whether or not a ‘real’ member is associated

    • The "All" member houses the primary hierarchy

    • The "No" member is used for data that has not yet, or will not, be assigned to a member of the dimension

  • Alternate hierarchies should not roll up to top

These choices make it easier to:

  • Define rules

  • Use built in reports (Stage Balancing, Trace, Prof Curves)

  • Use Smart View and other reporting tools