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Change Shortcut Dimension to new one in General Ledger Setup

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Posted on by Hoang Ng 295

My ERP has run for 6 months.

Now Accountant wants to use more Shortcut Dimension. 8 shortcut dimensions were set up so I cannot add more. I intent to change DIM-ENTITY to new one.

Is there any risk should I need to concern or system will work well even this change ?

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    Akash Shukla Profile Picture
    Akash Shukla 365 on at
    RE: Change Shortcut Dimension to new one in General Ledger Setup

    Hi Peter,

    I completely concur with Narang. Business Central allows you to create an unlimited number of dimensions, and you can change the shortcut dimension from 3 to 8 whenever required. Global dimensions are numbered 1 and 2, as you know.

    In some cases, changing the shortcut dimension may cause the earlier dimension to not appear in the GL entry table records, although it might be necessary for accurate reporting

    How to export the GL reports with all the dimension you can view below blog for better understanding:

    www.d365akash.com/.../how-to-extract-gl-entries-with-all-the-dimensions

    I hope this will helpful to you.

    Thank you

  • Hoang Ng Profile Picture
    Hoang Ng 295 on at
    RE: Change Shortcut Dimension to new one in General Ledger Setup

    Thanks Narang,

    I checked and saw it worked as I expected when I created new Dimension and replaced shortcut dimension.

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    NAV_with_Narang 2,250 Moderator on at
    RE: Change Shortcut Dimension to new one in General Ledger Setup

    Hi There - To be honest, adding so many dimensions can create "analysis-paralysis" for a user doing ME/YE reporting. While microsoft gives you the possibility to add n-number of dimensions, whereas the shortcut dimensions are just 8. You can change the short-cut dimension, just ensure to not delete the DIM-ENTITY from the Dimension Master. According to the best of my knowledge, there shouldn't be any issues to worry about, I'd leave that for comments to other community members

    On another note: If you want to  not change the shortcut dimension, you can just add a new dimension along with it's values in the dimension master and ask the accountant to select this new dimension from the "dimension" button provided by MS on each card & line page

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