4 Dimension Management

Dimension Management facilitates you to categorize data into a single object as a Member; define levels and aggregate data to form the Hierarchies, and distinguish each member by defining the required Attributes.

PBSMCS provides seeded as well as placeholder dimensions that can be activated. These dimensions can be further classified as Key dimensions and Simple dimensions. There are 7 seeded Key dimensions that may be called as Key Processing Dimensions such as, Legal Entity, Organization Unit, Common Chart of Accounts, Product, General Ledger Account, Financial Element and Transaction Type. There are a number of seeded Simple dimensions as well.

The roles mapped to Dimension Management are as follows:

• Dimension Advanced
• Dimension Authorization
• Dimension Read Only
• Dimension Write

• Object Security
  Object Security helps to secure data and also to decide what each user can access. You can apply Object Security to various object definitions like Hierarchy definitions, Filters, Expressions and Migration definitions.
• Components of Dimension Management
  
• Attributes
  Attributes refers to the distinguished properties or qualifiers that describes a Dimension Member. Attributes are applicable to key dimensions only.
• Members
  Dimension Members refer to the individual items that constitute a dimension when data is categorized into a single object such as Product, Organization, Time, and so on. Members are available within Dimension Management section.
• Hierarchy
  Hierarchies refer to Dimension Members that are arranged in levels, with each level representing the aggregated total of the data from the level below. One dimension type can have multiple hierarchies associated with it. Hierarchies are available within the Dimension Management section.
• Viewing Data in a Summary Page
  A Summary page will contain a list of definitions associated with a specific Dimension Data, Filters, Batch or Schedules.