Hi Ashley,
The main advantage you could leverage from the attributes with respect to archiving variants is the dynamic date calculation feature. This helps avoid creating variants everytime for the ongoing archiving runs.
Here is an example scenario:
Consider you want to archive material documents which are older than say 2 years. And you want to schedule a job which runs every month. But you dont want to create a new archive variant every month. In this case you could make use of the dynamic date calculation feature. In the attribute screen there will be a field for date, in our example of material documents, it is the posting date. for this field, you can tick the selection variable check box and select the 'Selection variable' , then you can choose the variable as Dynamic date calculation with value 'Current value +/- ??? days'. In our case we can choose -730 days (for 2 years). then you save and come back to the main screen for the variant, you can see that the posting date will have an automatic value of current date - 730 days. So when you want to run the archive next time after a month, you can use the same variant and the posting date would be automatically calculated based on the current date.
We do have documentation on this is help.sap.com. And the above example is just one scenario, for detailed use of attributes, please refer to the following link:
Link:[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c0/980389e58611d194cc00a0c94260a5/frameset.htm]
Hope this helps,
Naveen
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