Price dimensions are an important concept to link any field into the pricing tables. Any field that will determine a pricing adjustment such as Quantity, Term, and more, needs a dimension created for it.

Navigating the Price Dimensions Page

When you launch the Price Dimensions page on the UI, all the existing price dimensions are listed on this page along with their details. There are various functionalities available for you to manage the price dimensions.

Price Dimensions Search

You can narrow down the price dimensions using the search feature. You can either define search criteria to search for a range of price dimensions or use the price dimensions search option.

Basic Search

In basic search, you can search for a price dimension using keywords. For example, you can search using the name of the price dimension. 

  1. In the Search this list field, enter a keyword related to your price dimension name.
  2. Click the search icon  or press Enter. CPQ returns all price dimensions that contain that keyword in the price dimension names.

Advanced Search

In advanced search, you can search for a price dimension using a search query. The search query uses options provided in the Field, Operator, and Value and displays a search result that matches the criteria.

  1. Click the Advanced Search icon . The Advanced Search pop-up is displayed.
    1. Field: All price dimension fields are available in the drop-down list such as Text, Checkbox, Date, Date/Time, Number, Percent, Picklist, Multi-Select Picklist, Currency.
    2. Operator: Operators that are available for selection helps create the filter expression. Operators are displayed based on the field types. For example, a picklist value will display equal to and not equal operators and a text field will display equal to, not equal to, starts with, contain, does not contain operators. If it is a multi-value picklist, the application displays include and does not include operators.
    3. Value: Enter a value.
  2. Click Add Criteria if you want add more criteria in the advanced search.
  3. Turn the Logic button on if you have more than one criteria and enter a value in the Logic field.
  4. Click Apply to enable the search filter.

Sorting Price Dimensions

You can sort the price dimensions by clicking the column names. The price dimensions are sorted alphabetically. Every time you click the column name, the sorting switches between ascending and descending order. You can adjust the column width by dragging the columns. Hover near the column boundaries till two-way arrow appears. Click when the arrow appears and drag left or right to adjust the column width.

Actions available on this page

  • Click Create New to create a new price dimensions.
  • Click the ellipsis icon next to a price dimension name to edit or delete an existing price dimension.
  • Click the price dimension name link to open the Price Dimension details page.

Items per page

At the bottom of the page, you can see the total count of price dimensions available. You can control the number of price dimensions to be displayed on each page. You can select the number of price dimensions from a predefined list. You cannot configure this list. By default, you see 20 records on each page.

By default, you can sort 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 price dimensions per page using the Rows per page drop-down. This feature works in association with the search and filter functions to display search records per page. You can use the < and > buttons to move to the next or the previous pages. You can also jump to a certain page using the page search component.