Dimensions

Setting up dimensions should not be something we exclusively do when we implement NAV for the first time at our businesses. Change is the norm in business, and I would be genuinely surprised to hear from anyone at this point that their business has not changed…

Today I’ve got some old news and some new news for you regarding dimensions, but first I need to re-emphasize that finance and IT must be of one mind when it comes to dimensions. As a finance professional, you’ll definitely have your perspective on how dimensions…

Now that you know you can view dimensions on postings and in financial reporting though account schedules, let me show you how you can utilize dimensions in budgets. NAV budgets opens up a few more possibilities for you where dimensions are concerned. Take a look at…

Error messages related to dimensions can be the bane of a dimension-using NAV user’s existence unless you know how to properly deal with them. The number one thing I tell my end users is, “if the error message has the word dimension in it, the error…

We’ve spent a good deal of time talking about how to get dimensions into your financial data, now we need to talk a little bit about how to get that information back out in the form of reporting. One of the most direct ways to get…

Here’s the deal with dimension priorities. Depending on what you’ve chosen for your dimension strategy, an entry could have more than one dimension proposed at the time you post it. When this happens, NAV needs a way to break the tie, and that way is dimension…

One way to get additional accuracy out of your NAV dimensions is to assign dimension combinations. Dimension combinations are really good for two things: 1) to keep you from posting something that simply doesn’t belong where you’re putting it, and 2) to keep you from posting…