About Creating Alternate Plan Types

Alternate plan types containing alternate year dimensions typically are created after the initial creation of a Planning application. They usually use the ASO storage type as this type is more efficient for large amounts of data. All plan types created during the initial Planning application creation typically inherit the Year dimension. However, ASO plan types created after the application enable administrators and others with appropriate security roles to add dimensions selectively so that a custom year dimension can be included without the default Year dimension.