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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

by Alex Chow, Roberto Stefanetti
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
31h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding dimensions

A dimension can be seen as information linked to an entry, something like a tag or a characteristic. The purpose of dimensions is to group entries with similar characteristics so that you can report on the data in a way that is meaningful to the company. Each company can define its own dimensions according to how they need to analyze their data.

Posted entries and posted documents can contain analyzable dimension information as well as budgets. The term dimension is used to describe how analysis occurs. A two-dimensional analysis, for example, would be sales per area. You can also apply more than two dimensions when posting a document or a journal. This will allow you to carry out a more complex analysis, for example, ...

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