Maintenance View Variants
Maintenance view variants are partial views of generated maintenance dialogs, i.e. a maintenance view variant restricts the maintenance dialog on which it is based, for example, to a smaller number of maintainable fields, or uses a more restrictive database selection than the initial dialog. The maintenance view variant has no maintenance dialog of its own, it uses the maintenance dialog on which it is based, including the maintenance screens and all its checks.
Existing customizing views are often too detailed for a process-oriented customizing perspective. To make these views useful for the process perspective, they must be split into smaller views. This would mean that new maintenance dialogs must be generated and that any individual adjustments required per new maintenance dialog must be repeated. Maintenance view variants restrict existing dialogs to the contents required for the a process-oriented perspective, without additional generated dialogs.