Setting up dimensions

In Chapter 4, Reporting and Business Intelligence, you learned about dimensions and how they can help to analyze the data registered into the system. To create dimensions and dimensions values, we perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Dimensions and click on New.
  2. Give the new dimension a code such as ITEM TYPE.
  3. Click on Dimension Values and create the values shown in the following screenshot:

    Setting up dimensions

    Note

    You can create new dimension values on existing dimensions at any time.

Once the dimension is created, we have to tell the system whether it will be used as a global dimension or a shortcut dimension. This can be done ...

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