What Are Level Dimensions?

December 3, 2025

In Workday Adaptive Planning, a Level represents an organizational unit or entity around which you plan and report—think departments, cost centers, legal entities, or even individual stores. Levels are the backbone of your organizational hierarchy.

Level Dimensions are, quite simply, the standard dimensions automatically associated with these organizational levels. They are the characteristics that define and categorize the level itself.

For example:

If your Level is “Store”, its Level Dimensions might include:
- Region (e.g., Northeast, West)
- Store Type (e.g., Large Format, Small Format)
- Area
If your Level is “Department”, its Level Dimensions might include:
- Business Unit
- Geographic Location

Level Dimensions tell you where the planning is happening (which part of the organization), while Custom Dimensions tell you what the planning is about (which product or project). Together, they provide a comprehensive, multidimensional view of your business.Level Dimensions are also very similar to attributes. Attributes have the main purpose of grouping either levels or dimensions for reporting purposes. Level Dimensions tag a level similar to an attribute, but also create a new intersection of data with the Level Dimension. This in turn allows for planning to also be done at this intersection, instead of just tagging them together.

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Julia Seelin

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