Example of the Use of a Variant Group 

Report REPORT1 contains one variable for the period and another for the division which you would like to analyze. A second report, REPORT2, contains variables for the period and the sales region.

The marketing department of your company is particularly interested in the division Pharmaceuticals and in the regions Northeast and South for period 1 . You create variant MARKA for this department. For this variant MARKA of report REPORT1, you define the period as period 1 and the division as Pharmaceuticals.

For MARKB in REPORT2, you define the variable combinations: period 1 and region Northeast , as well as period 1 and region South .

Then you create a variant group MARKET and enter the variants MARKA and MARKB for the reports REPORT1 and REPORT2.

In order to print or save the reports you schedule the variant group MARKET in the background processing.