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# Codeunit 411 "Dimension Buffer Management"

> Codeunit 411 "Dimension Buffer Management" in Base Application (Microsoft.Finance.Dimension). 12 public procedures, 3 events. Present since at least BC23, still in BC30.

Base Application · Microsoft.Finance.Dimension · BC23-30 · [source at ea08af5e](https://github.com/microsoft/BCApps/blob/ea08af5ef2d6a9b5c5af4a029288abbe2c883220/src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Finance/Dimension/DimensionBufferManagement.Codeunit.al) · facts from BC29

## Events published

- `OnInsertDimensionsUsingEntryNoOnBeforeTempDimBufInsert(var TempDimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"; var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"; EntryNo: Integer; var IsHandled: Boolean)` (integration): Integration event raised before inserting a dimension buffer entry during dimension insertion. Allows customization of dimension buffer data before the entry is inserted.
- `OnFindDimensionsKnownDimBufCountBeforeProcessingLinesOnAfterFilterTempDimBuf(var TempDimensionBuffer: Record "Dimension Buffer"; DimensionBuffer: Record "Dimension Buffer")` (integration): Integration event raised after filtering temporary dimension buffer during dimension search. Allows additional filtering logic before processing dimension matching lines.
- `OnFindDimensionsKnownDimBufCountOnAfterFilterTempDimBuf(var TempDimensionBuffer: Record "Dimension Buffer"; DimensionBuffer: Record "Dimension Buffer")` (integration): Integration event raised after filtering temporary dimension buffer during dimension search. Allows additional filtering logic during the dimension matching process.

## Procedures

- `InsertDimensions(var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"): Integer`: Inserts dimension entries into the buffer and returns a new entry number. Creates a new entry set in the dimension buffer with sequential entry numbering.
- `InsertDimensionsUsingEntryNo(var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"; EntryNo: Integer)`: Inserts dimension entries into the buffer using a specific entry number. Assigns the provided entry number to all dimensions in the buffer set.
- `FindDimensions(var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"): Integer`: Finds existing dimension set in the buffer and returns its entry number. Searches for a matching set of dimensions and returns the entry number if found.
- `FindDimensionsKnownDimBufCount(var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"; DimBufCount: Integer): Integer`: Finds existing dimension set with known dimension count and returns its entry number. Optimized search method when the number of dimensions in the set is already known.
- `GetDimensions(EntryNo: Integer; var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"): Boolean`: Retrieves all dimensions for a specific entry number into the dimension buffer. Populates the provided dimension buffer with all dimensions associated with the entry number.
- `DeleteAllDimensions()`: Clears all dimension entries from the temporary dimension buffer. Removes all stored dimension data to prepare for new operations.
- `CollectDimEntryNo(var SelectedDim: Record "Selected Dimension"; DimSetID: Integer; EntryNo: Integer; ForgetDimEntryNo: Integer; DoCollect: Boolean; var DimEntryNo: Integer)`: Collects dimension entry numbers for selected dimensions in analysis scenarios. Manages dimension entry collection for analysis views and reporting with optional collection control.
- `FindFirstDimEntryNo(var DimEntryNo: Integer; var EntryNo: Integer): Boolean`: Finds the first dimension entry number and corresponding entry number in the collection. Initializes iteration through collected dimension entries for analysis processing.
- `NextDimEntryNo(var DimEntryNo: Integer; var EntryNo: Integer): Boolean`: Advances to the next dimension entry number and corresponding entry number in the collection. Continues iteration through collected dimension entries for analysis processing.
- `DeleteAllDimEntryNo()`: Clears all collected dimension entry numbers from the collection. Removes all entries from the dimension entry buffer to prepare for new collection.
- `GetDimensionId(var Dimbuf: Record "Dimension Buffer"): Integer`: Gets or creates a unique dimension ID for a dimension combination. Returns an existing ID if the dimension combination already exists, or creates a new one.
- `RetrieveDimensions(DimId: Integer; var DimBuf: Record "Dimension Buffer")`: Retrieves all dimensions for a specific dimension ID into a dimension buffer. Reconstructs the dimension combination from the dimension ID buffer into the provided buffer.

Plus 1 local procedures.

## Triggers

OnRun

## Called by

From the extracted call graph of BC29 (graphify-al on the snapshot checkout): calls whose target is known from a declared type or an `Object::"Name"` argument. Interface dispatch and calls through events are not counted, so the list is not complete.

- [Codeunit 432 "Consolidate"](../codeunit/432.md) (6 calls: `OnRun → DeleteAllDimensions`, `OnRun → GetDimensions`, `UpdatePriorPeriodBalances → DeleteAllDimensions`, …)
- [Report 1198 "Date Compress Resource Ledger"](../report/1198.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 1498 "Date Compress Bank Acc. Ledger"](../report/1498.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 198 "Date Compress Customer Ledger"](../report/198.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 398 "Date Compress Vendor Ledger"](../report/398.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 5697 "Date Compress Insurance Ledger"](../report/5697.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 5698 "Date Compress Maint. Ledger"](../report/5698.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 7139 "Date Comp. Item Budget Entries"](../report/7139.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 790 "Calculate Inventory"](../report/790.md) (4 calls: `CreateDimFromDefault → InsertDimensions`, `InsertItemJnlLine → GetDimensions`, `UpdateBuffer → FindDimensions`, …)
- [Report 97 "Date Compr. G/L Budget Entries"](../report/97.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Report 98 "Date Compress General Ledger"](../report/98.md) (4 calls: `ComprCollectedEntries → DeleteAllDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → FindFirstDimEntryNo`, `ComprCollectedEntries → NextDimEntryNo`, …)
- [Codeunit 699 "Exch. Rate Adjmt. Process"](../codeunit/699.md) (3 calls: `GetDimCombID → FindDimensions`, `GetDimCombID → InsertDimensions`, `GetDimSetEntry → GetDimensions`)
- [Report 393 "Suggest Vendor Payments"](../report/393.md) (3 calls: `SetTempPaymentBufferDims → FindDimensions`, `SetTempPaymentBufferDims → InsertDimensions`, `UpdateDimensions → GetDimensions`)
- [Report 394 "Suggest Employee Payments"](../report/394.md) (3 calls: `SetTempEmplPaymentBufferDims → FindDimensions`, `SetTempEmplPaymentBufferDims → InsertDimensions`, `UpdateDimensions → GetDimensions`)
- [Report 91 "Export Consolidation"](../report/91.md) (2 calls: `UpdateTempGLEntry → FindDimensions`, `UpdateTempGLEntry → InsertDimensions`)
- [Codeunit 5986 "Serv-Amounts Mgt."](../codeunit/5986.md) (1 call: `GetDimensions → GetDimensions`)
- [Page 1190 "Create Payment"](../page/1190.md) (1 call: `UpdateDimensions → GetDimensions`)
- [Page 1191 "Create Employee Payment"](../page/1191.md) (1 call: `UpdateDimensions → GetDimensions`)

## Across versions

- Present in: BC23-30
- Changed (declaration) in: none

## Countries that replace it

[IT](../../localizations/it.md)

Source: AL metadata extracted from the code (names, ids, signatures, properties); no code bodies (D10).

## Ask your agent

Procedure bodies are not stored here (D10). The call sections above are our own, per object, from the BC29 call graph. For a procedure body or the calls of one procedure, ask bc-code-atlas (external, by Stefan Maron, MIT; default corpus w1-28), which the bc-observatory plugin connects: `bcatlas_resolve_node(object_type: "codeunit", object_name: "Dimension Buffer Management")`, then `bcatlas_get_procedure_body` or `bcatlas_get_neighbors` on the returned id.