Splitting Billing Data

Configuring how billing data gets split between your child organizations requires you to create a rule-based dimension (RBD) with the name Bill Split and add rules to the Bill Split RBD to assign billing costs to your child organizations.

Note:Bill Split is a special default rule-based dimension. You must use this special RBD. It is only possible to have one such dimension for your organization; however, you can add multiple rules to this particular dimension to allocate accounts to your customers.

Creating the Rule-Based Dimension Required for Bill-Splitting

Important: To create a rule-based dimension, you must have the Manage organization or Manage rule-based dimensions role. For complete descriptions of each role available in Flexera One, see Flexera One Roles.

A special, default rule-based dimension Bill Split is required for bill-splitting. Once the dimension is created, continue by adding rules to assign costs to different child organizations.

The rules you add to the Bill Split dimension relate vendor accounts to the child organizations you created for your customers. You can create a rules list with simple and basic rules on the Rule-Based Dimensions page. To create rules with nested expressions, use the Rules-Based Dimensions API. For more information, see FinOps Customizations API.

These rules are effective from the effectiveAt year and month setting you provide.

To create a rule-based dimension required for bill-splitting:

Go to the Rule-Based Dimensions page (Cloud > Administration > Rule-Based Dimensions).

Click Create New Dimension. The Create New Dimension slideout opens.

In the Dimension Name box, enter Bill Split as name of the dimension that you want to add.

From the Select Effective Month for Rules list, select the date (year-month) for the rules list to become effective.

Note:A rules list describes how a rule-based dimension is populated. This rules list is effective at 12:00 AM on the first day of the selected month, and remains effective until another set is defined for a subsequent month. For more information, see Creating Rules List.

Click Save. The dimension added displays in the Dimensions list with the effective month added as a rules list under it.

Note:rbd_bill displays next to the Bill Split dimension name.

To add a rule to the rules list, click Create New Rule.The Create Rule slideout opens.

Note:Rules determine how to assign the costs. The rules are evaluated in the order they are listed.

To add a condition to a rule, from the Match dropdown list, select one of the following Boolean operators:

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Any—Checks whether any of the conditions are true for the value to be assigned to the dimension.

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All—Checks whether all the conditions are true for the value to be assigned to the dimension.

From the Dimension dropdown list, select one of the following dimensions for bill-splitting:

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For Shared Master Payer (linked accounts) use the Cloud Vendor Account dimension

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For Dedicated Master Payer (Full Ingestion) use the Bill Source dimension

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For Dedicated Master Payer (Partial Ingestion) use the Bill Source and Cloud Vendor Account dimension with the And condition.

Select the operator (Equals) from the drop-down list.

In the Value box, enter a value for the dimension for the rule to be applicable. For example, if you select the dimension as Cloud Vendor Account, enter the subscription ID prd-111115-entsrcdtes-0xxxxx7.

Note:To clear the values, click the Reset icon next to the Value box.

In the Value box, enter a value that is assigned to the dimension when the condition is met. For example, enter 36717-Child Org 1 that will be the child organization assigned to this rule when the condition is met.

In this example, the cloud vendor account prd-111115-entsrcdtes-0xxxxx7 is assigned to the customer identified as child organization 36717-Child Org 1.

Note:To add more conditions to the rule, click Add. From the Match dropdown list, if you select Any, then Or is displayed between condition sets and if you select All from the Match dropdown list, then And is displayed between condition sets.

Click Save. The rule is added to the rules list.

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To edit and delete a rule, click the three dots icon next to the rule, and then click Edit Rule and Delete Rule, respectively.

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To change the priority of a rule, click Reorder. You can move the rule up and down in the list by clicking the Up and Down arrows or you can change the priority of a rule by clicking the Move icon and selecting the priority and clicking Move. Or, you can drag the rule to a new location. Then, click Save Order.