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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789133936
Pages 764 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Roberto Stefanetti Roberto Stefanetti
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Alex Chow Alex Chow
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Exploring Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC – Overview Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 – An Overview General Considerations Implementation Process – Partner's Perspective Implementation Process – Customer's Perspective Migrating Data Upgrading to Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Development Considerations Implementing Functional Changes Data Analysis and Reporting Debugging with Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Popular Reporting Options Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Working and Developing with Docker and Sandboxes Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Analysis views


Analysis views are used to analyze information about dimensions from general ledger entries, budgets, and cash flow forecast entries. It is a very powerful tool that can create even very complex analysis scenarios, and the configuration matrix is very detailed, with many applicable filters.

Let's first have a look at what dimensions are, and then we will be able to see how to analyze the information that dimensions provide using analysis views.

Understanding dimensions

A dimension can be seen as information linked to an entry, something like a tag or a characteristic. The purpose of dimensions is to group entries with similar characteristics so that you can report on the data in a way that is meaningful to the company. Each company can define its own dimensions according to how they need to analyze their data.

Posted entries and posted documents can contain analyzable dimension information as well as budgets. The term dimension is used to describe how analysis occurs. A two-dimensional...

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