Incrementally Enabling Custom Dimensions

You can incrementally enable custom dimensions in Financials.

You can use Enable Features at any time to enable any of the following custom dimensions:

  • Product
  • Services
  • Custom 1
  • Custom 2
  • Custom 3

In an existing application, if you have not previously enabled some of the custom dimensions, you now have the option to expand your business by incrementally enabling the custom dimensions, up to the total of 5 custom dimensions.

For new applications, you don’t have unnecessarily enable all of the custom dimensions in case you might need them in the future, because you can now add them later only if needed, for example to expand your business.

Note:

  • You can enable a total of 5 custom dimensions at any time—when you first enable the application, or later.
  • All out-of-box artifacts are updated for newly enabled dimensions. For example, if you incrementally enable the Product dimension, all out-of-box forms are updated to include the Product dimension.
  • Any artifacts you’ve modified are not updated for newly enabled dimensions. You must modify your customized artifacts to incorporate the newly enabled dimensions.

Note:

Oracle recommends these steps to avoid potential data loss when you incrementally enable dimensions:

  1. Export all level 0 data.
  2. Clear the data in the application.
  3. Use Enable Features to incrementally enable the dimension.
  4. Refresh the database. From the Configure page, select Refresh Database from the Actions menu. Click Create, and then click Refresh Database.
  5. Modify the exported data file to add a default member (for example, Any Member) from the newly added dimension in the POV, or include the Any Member member in the header section of the rule file.
  6. Reimport the modified CSV file.
  7. Run the business rules to aggregate the data.

Oracle recommends that you perform these steps in your test instance and after it clears validation, take it to your production instance.