Dynamics 365 Business Central: Item Category

How to Categorize Your Items in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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[@MRO-Management]

Office Supplies- Category (Group ) Cup = Parent Category (Class) Drinking = Category (Sub-Class) CODE CUP_DRINKING Descriptions Drinking Cups Attribute Template = CUP_DRINKING TYPE = Disposable APPLICATION = Coffee CAPACITY = 250 ml FEATURES = logo COLOR =Orange MATERIAL = Recyclable Plastic BRAND NAME= XXXX

[@kaidemaas]

I need to know, how many time one item invoiced for a period as well per customer how many invoice contains particular items

[@toth.42]

Incredibly, 5 years later you still can't filter by a parent category and see items in child categories. What's the point of parent/child categories when they're unusable, unsearchable, unfilterable?

[@chipwils0n]

Johannes, How would utilizing dimensions related to Items complement or conflict with attributes? It seems to me there may be redundancies, but I may be thinking about this incorrectly.

[@inecta-Food-ERP]

Dimensions will allow you to separate out G/L entries from the bottom up (they exist in the G/L) as well as other ledger entries (value, item). Attributes will force you to filter from top down, beginning from the Item, which is sometimes harder. Also dimensions will give you combinations like customer/item from a sales order.

[@chipwils0n]

iNECTA University thanks Johannes, the top down/bottom up distinction is very helpful.

[@inecta-Food-ERP]

+Chip Wilson You're welcome!