Filtering of Generation Variants by Country 

Use

This function determines those generation variants whose validity areas best match the specified countries from all generation variants and combinations of generation variants found by the system during label determination. This reduces the number of generation variants found.

Features

The environment parameter GLM_VAR_DET that you defined in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Environment Parameters specifies how the most suitable generation variant is found:

·        If the environment parameter is not set or has the value X, the system tries to find as few generation variants as possible by looking for generation variants whose validity areas contain as many of the specified countries as possible, that is, those that are valid as generally as possible.

·        If the environment parameter is set, but has no value (it is empty), the system tries to find generation variants whose validity areas contain as few superfluous countries as possible, that is, those that best match the specified countries.

Example

The countries DE and FR were specified in a labeling scenario for label determination. The system found the following generation variants:

Generation Variant	Validity Area
VAR1	DE
VAR2	FR
VAR3	DE, FR, GB
VAR4	REG_EU, that is, AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LU, NL, PT, SE

The following combinations of these are, for example, suitable for the specified countries:

·        VAR1 + VAR2

·        VAR3

·        VAR4

The most suitable combination is as follows:

Value of GLM_VAR_DET environment parameter	Most suitable generation variants	Comment
X	VAR3, VAR4	Both contain the required countries and only one generation variant is currently necessary to cover all countries.
<empty>	Combination VAR 1 + VAR2	This is the only combination that does not contain any superfluous countries.