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/AFS/SIMGBC_GRDDIMDF - Define Grid Dimensions

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In the system you can combine characteristics of your materials, such as color values or different sizes in dimensions. With these dimensions you create your grids in which you ultimately specify possible characteristic values of each material by the combination of values of different dimensions. To define your dimensions, proceed as follows:

1. Definition of the dimensions (mandatory)
2. Definition of dimension values for each dimension (mandatory)
3. Specification of a sort sequence for the dimension values within each dimension (optional)
   

When specifying your dimensions, please note that you cannot delete them once they have been used in the grids.

To uniquely define your dimensions in the system you have to enter the following three criteria:

• Dimension indicator

Enter an alphanumeric key that consists of a maximum of four characters. With the indicator you and the system can distinguish between the dimensions. You can assign an indicator only once.

Note

After using the dimension, you can no longer change or delete the dimension indicator.

• Short text

Enter a short text describing your dimension. In the application, for example the grid entry view, the system always displays the selected dimensions by dimension indicators and its short text. If you use the system in different languages, you have to maintain the text in each language separately.

Note

You can subsequently change the short text of your dimension. The system automatically updates your dimensions in the application.

• Dimension length

Enter the maximum length of your dimension numerically. The system takes these dimension lengths as a basis for the construction of the fields in the grid entry view. When creating grids, the dimensions can be no longer than 8 characters. Therefore, note which dimensions you want to combine in the application.

Example

You define a dimension shoe size. If you want to define the sizes 34, 36, and so on to this dimension, the dimension length is 2. If you want to use the sizes 5, 5.5, 6, etc., the dimension length is 3, or if you want to allow for two places before the decimal, the dimension length is 4.

Note

Once you have used a dimension, you can only make limited changes to its length. We recommend defining a new dimension rather than changing the dimension length.

If you shorten or lengthen a dimension, it does not affect the grids in which you have used that dimension.

Shortening the dimension length could have the result that you can no longer use all dimension values of this dimension. When maintaining grids, you can still choose among all defined dimension values, but the system can only transfer those values to the grid, that do not consist of more characters than the new system length allows.

Before you extend the dimension length you should consider which other dimensions you want to combine these dimensions with in the grid maintenance, and whether you can still do that after a change of the dimension length and remain within the maximum permitted overall length of the dimensions in the grid.

Select a dimension and choose Define dimension values.
You determine valid dimension values by entering an alphanumeric key with a maximum of four characters. You can explain each value with a short text. You can freely define any number of dimension values for each dimension.

You defined a dimension color. As dimension values you can enter any number of color variants, such as black, blue, red, etc.

You cannot subsequently change the key of a dimension value.

With the definition of a sort sequence for the values within your dimension, you can influence the vertical listing of the grid values in the line entry view of your grid.

In Customizing you only define the sort sequences. You decide in the application whether you want to use the corresponding functionality.

If you have activated a sort sequence of a grid, the system first displays in every line entry view of your grid, for example in the stock overview of your material, those grid values that represent a combination of such dimension values to which you have assigned the lowest numbers in the sort sequence.

You specify a sort sequence by numbering your dimension values. It is not important in which order you have entered the values in the Customizing table. You can freely determine by which criteria your dimension values should be sorted.

You can change sort sequences subsequently or enter new ones, regardless if you have already used your dimension or not. If you want to have the option of completing your dimension later, we recommend using the sort sequence in steps of ten, for example.

You want the system to always display the sizes of your dimension size, with which you achieve the best sales results, e.g. S, M, L. You assign the lowest numbers in the sort sequence to these values, that is 10, 20, 30 when using steps of ten. You assign the highest numbers (40, 50) to the sizes you sell rarely, such as XS, XL. If in a later season you get better sales results with size XL than with L, but L still sells better than XS, you can change the sort sequence at any time and assign the number 30 to value XL and 35 to L.

You must also enter a sort sequence if you want the system to sort your dimension values numerically ascending or according to the sequence you have entered in the Customizing table. If you do not enter a sort sequence, the system sorts the values in a free sequence.

If you want to connect the R/3 system to a BW system, you can assign elementary fields to the dimensions.

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