Custom Dimension

Dear All
At present I am using Business Area in ECC 6.0 (EHP4). The requirement is to derive Financial Statements at a Branch/Plant level. I was told that Business Area functionality is out of use and there wont be any further enhancements in the functionality of Business Area. I can create Profit Center for a combination of Legal Entity/Product/Branch. However, I will be ending up with more number of Profit Centers which will be difficult to Manage.
I came across a functionality 'Custom Dimension' wherein a Custom field can be added to capture Branch or Plant in all the Financial & Logistics documents accross the Company Code. I would like to know more about Custom Dimension and whether it is available in ECC 6.0 EHP4 version.
Thanks in Advance
Janakiraman

Hello,
is this with the Product Hyperion Financial Management?
If yes, you might close the issue here and post it in the HFM group.
Regards,
Philip Hulsebosch

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John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Can you see data for Custom object @ BEx level??
YES, then just try to re-create the same variable and Save the BW query.
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OK -- then Export the Universe and create WebI reports, this will come as Prompt.
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Thank You!!
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Hi,
here are some examples of what you can create:
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I guess I am not understanding the question here?
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Hi Sridhar Sundaram,
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We have a requirement to have an application with forecasts performed at supplier level (in conjunction with accounts). I know that the question of how big can a dimension be is not a straight forward one and depends on several factors. However, I am having to answer it for a client and would like to ensure that I have the right starting point.
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Thanks Alp.
I have quite a few Planning implementations behind me, but this is the first time I have needed to go down the route of creating such a large sparse dimension, so your advice is very helpful and comforting!
The "how big" can x be with Hyperion is often an essential and flaky question generally with an even flakier answer. There are obviously many factors involved, but all the same is something that crops up from time to time, so I appreciate your response. Many thanks!
Absolutely, we will be managing this meta-data within it's own database and summarising to the main app. I will also have a think about th move to a single dense dimension and will do some calcs for block size. I assume that you mean to possibly change account and period from dense to sparse and make the custom dimension dense?

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Custom Dimension - Customer Field

Dear All,
Please help in following questions:
1. Whether 'Custom Dimension' is interchangeably used for 'Customer Field' in ECC6.0 New GL?
2. If no, where are the IMG activities for custom dimension?
3. If yes, do I need to create a master record for individual item in a customer field? For eg. customer field is created for 'Vehicle No.', for each vehicle, do I need to create a master record for capturing the vehicle code (where vehicle code is defined in other system running parallel to SAP & through interface for creating an accounting document, we are taking the same into SAP)
4. Whether creation of master record for customerr field is always an IMG activity?
Your earlier reply will help me in closing certain issues faster.
Thanks & regards,
Amish.

Hi Kan
What kind of field do you need to add? Dimension or Measure?
Based on your initial investigaton, I will asume that its a dimension (SPM also has multiple custom measures per object).
I guess the confusion arises with the nomenclature (which will be cleared in the next release - they will be all named Custom Dimensions 1 - N).
0XSARC001C1 to 0XSARC001C7 and 0ASAC001C1 to 0ASAC001C8 are available for customizations. They total to 15 custom dimensions. The ones 0XSAR* are defaulted into the data model and wired up from the inbound all the way to the cube. The remainder of the eight dimensions 0ASA* are also available for custom usage but might or might not be wired into the data model out of the box. For the cases where the custom fields are not part of the data model, feel free to bring them in as part of your customizations.
What you need to be mindful of is that the way these dimensions are plugged in, as an example the field 0XSARC001C1 is set to be a "Line Item Dimension" in the 0ASA_C02 - Invoice cube.
The other mis conception, especially for people new to analytics and BW, is that these are custom "fields" for the respective objects. Thats not really the case, since they are joined "at the hip", so to speak, in the reporting layer multiprovider. The custom dimensions would need to MEAN the same across objects. For example if you set the custom dimension 0XSARC001C5 to mean Procurement Sustainability Factor in invoice, then this field has to hold its meaning of being Procurement Sustainability Factor across all of the other objects (Contracts. POs, etc...).
Hope that helps.
Regards
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I have a custom dimension associated to an attribute dimension that I am setting via dataloader. Can I query on members with missing values of an attribute?
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Hi,
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Cheers
John

Customer dimension

Hi All,
We have an customer dimension which generally called as party.
The datails are as below .can you please help me with the hierarchy structure and how to connect with the fact table:
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Country Code is globally unique.
Party Code is not globally unique, but unique within the next level in the hierarchy. For example code WALMART can be USWALMART or CAWALMART, but there can be only 1 WALMART under US.
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Party Code: Country Code + Party Code, ie. USWALMART - Walmart Stores Inc
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Parent Code:
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Regards
Ani

Hi All,
We have an customer dimension which generally called as party.
The datails are as below .can you please help me with the hierarchy structure and how to connect with the fact table:
Party
Party Code - Parent Code (can be empty or equal Party Code) - Company - Industry, Sales Channel (how to model multiple equal categories?)
Following levels can be associated with Country - Region subhierarchy: Party Core, Parent Code.
Country Code is globally unique.
Party Code is not globally unique, but unique within the next level in the hierarchy. For example code WALMART can be USWALMART or CAWALMART, but there can be only 1 WALMART under US.
Country Code: Country Code, ie. CA - Canada
Party Code: Country Code + Party Code, ie. CAWALMART - Walmart Canada Corp
Party Code: Country Code + Party Code, ie. USWALMART - Walmart Stores Inc
Both Party Codes above share the same Parent Code, below.
Parent Code:
Party Code: Country Code + Party Code, ie. USWALMART - Walmart Stores Inc
Regards
Ani

Can we run approval on custom dimension

Can we run approval on a dimension other than Entity, which is default dimension for it. But can we run it on any custom dimension?

Well,....
The Planning Unit still consists of Scenario, Version and Entity.
Yes, you can take a secondary dimension into the Planning Unit, but it is additional. It does not replace the Entity.
If you do not use the Entity information (Currency) in your model, then you could tag the other dimension as Entity. Planning is using the Tag, not a name.
You might also take the secondary dimension to the Entity, but this likely makes the process unnecessary complex.
Regards,
Philip Hulsebosch.
www.trexco.nl
p.s. To all users, close questions which were answered. Then we do not have to open them to see if we can help = saves us time to help others.

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