Processing the Generation Variant Header 

Prerequisites

You must have already created the report template that you allocated to the generation variant (See: Creating Document Templates).

Procedure

1.

If you want to

Then choose

Create the variant header

Variant ® Create on the initial screen or in the hit list

Edit the variant header

Goto ® Header in the hit list, description or rating

The generation variant header appears.
  1. Enter the required data in the generation variant header. Please observe the following notes:

Generation variant

Enter a key for your generation variant when creating it.

Validity area

Enter the leading validity area for the generation variant.

You can define more validity areas by choosing Rating/Validity.

Report type

Enter the report type (MSDS, label) to be used for the report template that you allocate to this generation variant.

Template/-version

Enter the key and the version of the report template to be allocated to the generation variant.

Controlling report management

You use the indicator and the initial status to control which statuses reports must acquire in turn in report management.

See: Generation Variant Indicator

Display options

Date format

Choose a date format as required.

Decimal display

Choose a decimal display as required.

Do not change your generation variant after you have used it for generating reports.
  1. Choose Enter and save your changes.

Result

The R/3 System completes the administrative data.