Editing the Generation Variant Header
Prerequisites
You must have already created the report template that you assigned to the generation variant (see
Creating Document Templates).Procedure
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Function |
Procedure |
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You want to create the variant header. |
On the Product Safety screen, choose Reports ® Edit generation variants ® .
From the generation variant hit list, choose |
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You want to edit the variant header. |
From the hit list, the description, or the rating, choose |
The generation variant header appears.
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Generation variant |
Enter a key for your generation variant when creating it. |
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Validity area |
Enter the leading validity area for the generation variant.
You can define more validity areas by choosing Rating/validity. |
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Report category |
Enter the report category to be used for the report template that you assign to this generation variant. |
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Template/version |
Enter the key and the version of the report template to be assigned to the generation variant. |
Controlling Report Management
You use the indicators and the initial status to control which statuses reports must acquire in turn in report management.
See Generation Variant Indicators.
Display Options
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Date format |
Choose the date format you want to use to display dates on the assigned report. |
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Decimal display |
Choose the decimal format you want to use to display decimal numbers on the assigned report. |
Do not change your generation variant after you have used it for generating reports.
and then 
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The SAP System completes the administration data.
You can now edit the descriptions, the rating and validity, or application objects.
See also:
Entering Generation Variant Descriptions Editing Ratings and Validity Areas for Generation Variants Defining Application Objects
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