Setting up Analysis Dimensions

An analysis dimension identifies a type of analysis you want to apply to one or more data entities. For example, you may want to analyze by Product, Location, Cost Centre and Employee.

You can define up to 99 analysis dimensions. Each analysis dimension is identified by its Short Heading i.e. product or cost centre, and a separate lookup code is also available.

Up to ten analysis dimensions can be used to analyze any of the analyzable static or transactional entities. A single analysis dimension can be used to analyze many different types of entity throughout the SunSystems modules.

When you define a new analysis dimension you can also determine some of the characteristics of analysis dimension codes. You can:

• set the maximum length of the analysis codes for the dimension. This is used to automatically adjust the length of the input field when the analysis code is requested, displayed or printed. An analysis code can include up to fifteen characters.
• identify the valid analysis codes by referring to an existing SunSystems data table (referred to as an analysis table). For example, if an analysis dimension represents Employees you would choose the Employee data table which is identified by Analysis Table Id 0132.
• control whether or not the analysis codes for the dimension can be changed on ledger transactions using Account Allocations (ACA).
• determine whether or not the analysis codes entered on transactions must be predefined, by choosing whether the codes are validated when they are entered.
• specify whether or not analysis extension fields are used for this analysis dimension if you are serialized for this function, by selecting the Extension Fields option.