Handling Variants

There are multiple ways in which you can maintain your variants in both SAP and Redwood Server. When you import your variants, you can decide to import variant definitions as well, which allows you to edit variants inside Redwood Server. This allows you to automate variant maintenance and distribution; furthermore, if you use identical variants across SAP instances, you can easily use Redwood Server to distribute modified variants to all SAP instances that use the variant. Even if you decide to maintain your variants inside SAPGui, you can use Redwood Server to copy variants from one SAP instance into another seamlessly, without even needing to import the variant into Redwood Server. You can use temporary variants by specifying them on the process definition and setting the Create Temporary Variant? also known as TEMPORARY_VARIANT parameter to Y.

The following topics covers Variant creation and modification:

1. Creating and Modifying Variants.
2. Creating Temporary Variants.

The following topics cover three main methods for storing variant modifications in an SAP System:

1. Maintaining Variants Manually.
2. Maintaining Variants Automatically.
3. Maintaining Variants Automatically (Advanced).

See Also

• Importing Variants
• Importing Variant Definitions