what are system variants and where they are stored in SAP?

[Former Member]

HI EXPERTS,

i want to know the use of system variants . when we create the variants in reports. where these system variants are stored in sap system?

thanks in advance.

vikas

[Former Member]

hi,

All the Variants are stored in VARID table.

[Former Member]

Hi,

System variants are used to run a report. These are very much useful when running in background job, workflow, etc.

Once you saved a variant, no need to input data in selection screen again n again. just select this variant.

VARID - variant directory

VARIT - variant texts

Regards,

Dhanunjaya Reddy

[Former Member]

Hi

All the system variants start with 'SAP&' or 'CUS&' and it is stored in client '000'

Regards

Madhan

[raymond_giuseppi]

The variant are stored in tables

- VARI ABAP/4: Variant storage (similar to INDX)

- VARID Variant directory

- VARIT Variant texts

You can access to these through function modules of group SVAR Variant maintenance (most of them begin with [RS_VARIANT_|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/advancedsearch?cat=sdn_all&query=rs_variant_*+&adv=false&sortby=cm_rnd_rankvalue])

Look also at [Creating Variants (SAP documentation)|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_webas630/helpdata/en/c0/980389e58611d194cc00a0c94260a5/frameset.htm] or [search Sdn for SVAR|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/advancedsearch?cat=sdn_all&query=svar&adv=false&sortby=cm_rnd_rankvalue]

System variants (CUS&, SAP&) are not editable when Client has status 'not modifiable' (as it is in productions system) also when edited in development system they are automatically transported.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi

Good

You can checke the VARID table.

Thanks

mrutyun^