BPC 5.1 account dimension documentation

Hi,
I'm new to SAP BPC and I would like to have information about how to design an Account type dimension.
Is there somewhere I could find a guide?
Thanks a lot.

Hi Hélène MICHAUT ,
If your new to BPC please read the guide below which gives what the account dimension and then based on your requirement then you can create your dimension.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc70sp02/helpdata/en/a1/532226947C49A5B2E2BD32450CB2D1/frameset.htm......Please find the link...
Hope it is helpful...
Regards,
Naresh.K

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Hi everyone,
I search for all the forum and I didn't find any explanation about the use of the "standards" accounts on BPC, we are using BPC 7.0 for NW.
Why BPC NW differentiate the dimensions depending on which application are going to be included?
For example BPC NW has four dimensions for the account C_ACCT(consolidation), R_ACCT(rate), P_ACCT(Planning) and O_ACCT(Ownership).
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Best Regards
Alexandre

Hello Alexandre,
You cannot use the same account dimension in all these applications, because the Rate and Ownership applications are designed to store currency conversion and ownership related data, so it would make no sense to add a financial chart of account to these applications. You could however use the same CoA between your Consolidation and your ICMatching, the idea to have two different ones is that you only have Intercompany data from some of your accounts and you may also want to use different roll-ups of your account to perform you IC Matching.
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Ignacio,
There is no function like that.
You can choose below two options.
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then those members will not be shown at the report.
2. Create 'NOUSE' parent member and put members under this parent member.
Maybe option 1 is more easier to do that.
I hope it will help you
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Good Afternoon,
I am having difficulties processing the account dimension from the Admin function. I can not save to server or process dimension. I get the following log error message. This is impeding my ability to add or change account information. I recently was on maternity leave for 3 months and I am not sure if it is a combination of inactivity coupled with a new PC? I have recently been provided with a new laptop, which I am unsure is configured properly.
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Previously, on my old laptop, I had this capability, and I can run and process all the other dimensions in our list via the Admin feature. I have also tried to refresh dimensions via the BPC EMP add in, and that seems to not throw any error logs, so I am unsure as to what my next step should be.
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Hi Jennifer,
if you're unsure that your PC isn't well configured please verify this with the 1678822 - Third Party Software Support Matrix For BPC for Microsoft 7.X, 10.X
Then run client and server diagnostic to see if there are problems.
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Hi Bhupi -
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hi
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SAP offers free content + documentation in the form of rapid-deployment solutions (RDS).
In the Extended Financial Planning Rapid-deployment solution, there is a module called G/L Financial Planning which includes the full load of SAP-based account dimension from SAP ERP to BPC via BW. This content introduces BPC-based Package Links as a best practice way to load master data (including the account hierarchy and transaction data). You can download the content and documentation from the highlighted page above or HERE.
SAP also offers free training on the EPM rapid-deployment solutions in the EPM RDS Academy 2015 on SAP JAM. If the link to the Academy does not work, please register HERE and SAP will invite you.

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Hi,
I've hit an issue with the length of my calculation exceeding 255. I'd like to add functions to the mdx logic library, but can't seem to figure out the best way to edit the file. I can see that there are logic files in the adminapp folder for each application, however I'm not sure how to edit and validate it. Is there an easy way to edit the files in this folder through the BPC Administrator tool?
Kind Regards,

Great - thanks. I've actually created a copy in my LegalApp and edit it through the Script Logic section and after validating I copy back into the AdminApp Folder - possibly not the best method, but it works at the moment.
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Kind Regards,
Fiona

Account dimension hierarchy text nodes ACCTYPE property

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Hello Richard,
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*           EXP -> Starts with 32*, 311*, 312*, 321*, 3111*, 3112*,
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Initial data format
EXTERN            INTERNAL         AMT
GL Acco                 Grp GL ACC           AMT
0200001              100000          0100
1000000              100000          0200
1000010              100000          0300
1000011              100000          0400
1000012              100000          0500
1000020              200000          0010
1000030              200000          0020
1001000              200000          0030
1001001              200000          0040
1001002              200000          0050
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We need to get the expected Rollup Amount data (Refer 3rd column) as below.
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GL Acco                 Grp GL ACC           AMT
0200001     100000        0100
1000000     100000        0300
1000010     100000        0600
1000011     100000        1000
1000012     100000        1500
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Regards
Amit

Hi,
Since, you are converting all the external GL accounts to the same internal Group GL account, it wont be rolled up. Instead, it will be aggregated.
If you report on 100000, you will see the data as a total sum.
Hope you got the idea.
So, this means, you cannot map all of them to the same internal member. You need to map them to different members and you need to create a hierarchy on those members for the correct rollup to take place.
Hope this helps.

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         In SAP - BPC 5.1 after processing account dimension all the members are created under account dimension in analysis services but the same cannot be found in the data cube. Hence the reports generated through SAP - BPC is not showing all the members.
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Sharath

Your sixth sense is correct, there is definitely support in MSAS and BPC 5.1 for multiple hierarchies in the account dimension.
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We have an issue processing the account dimension. It started at 8 levels, then decreased to 6 levels. However, the processing errors out. If we add some dummy members to bring it back to 8 levels, then it process fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Nancy

Hi Nancy,
the numbers of levels is not important.
I think the changes done into your dimensions are wrong and adding dummy members is doing correction of that error.
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Do you have more than one hierarchy?
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Account Dimension not included in Appshel?

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There are others of the same type such as P_ACCT, C_ACCT and O_ACCT. Just curious because many of the papers refer to Account dimension.
Is this a correct or something happened in during the installation.
Thanks
Sergio

Got the answer, reading the doc I noted the Appshel delivered in NW is dofferent that the one on MS.
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Sergio

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Hi everybody.
I am starting with bpc.
I am using bpc 7.5 for Microsoft.
Many tutorials I'm following says to create an application, like Finance Application, and keep in the application the Account dimension.
My doubt is that instead of Account dimension, appear three other dimensions: P_ACCT ; O_ACCT; C_ACCT.
In older versions of bpc, the Account dimension was one for the 3 different things (planning, owner and consolidation) ?
So, if I want to create a Finance Applicantion, I'll have to include this 3 dimensions in the application?
Thanks a lot.

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Madis

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Am I missing something here? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
We have SQL 2008 Enterprise sp2 CU3. BPC 7.5 MS SP3 patch5.

I apologize for this very late response.
Thanks for your response. Yes I did process the dimension, modify dimension property and modify-->Process Application. And the second hierarchy was visible when I logged back into the application.
John, yes the second hierarchy was visible in SSAS.
This was why it was baffling to me!
So after a whole day of trying to figure this out, I sort of gave up and started working on something else. And because it was our test environment, it didnt have any effect on the users. One day later I logged back in and it was working! I took out the second hierarchy again and added it back. Processed, modified etc. I got the same result. I couldnt pull any data from the second hierarchy. I logged out, logged back in the day after and it started working. So, basically it seemed like the system needed some time (12-16 hours in this case) to adjust? I really don't know how/why this happened, maybe someone have an explanation for this?
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