Creating and Maintaining Variant Groups 

Use

Variant groups are an extension of standard variants. Variant groups are used when standard variants are not sufficient. For example, when:

●      Different users or user groups are to work with different variants

●      Some users are to execute a transaction with different variants

Variant groups also provide the following possibilities:

●      Variants from variant groups are automatically imported for the users that are assigned to the groups

●      A user can be assigned to a number of groups and switch between the groups

●      In batch input mode, the values from variant groups are not imported

●      If a transaction is started with a different transaction variant, the values from a variant group are not also imported.

The variant groups and the associated transaction variants are client-independent. However, since the users are client-dependent, the assignments are also client-dependent.

Procedure

To work with variant groups, proceed as follows:

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       1.      You first need to create the variant group and transaction variant with screen variants and assign users to the group.

       2.      You can then maintain the variant group and the transaction variants associated with the group.

The following sections describe how users can switch between variant groups and the order of precedence in which variant values are imported if a variant transaction and a variant group and standard variant are defined.