Calling Up a Screen Variant

If you create a permanent screen variant for a transaction (by attaching a slash to the beginning of its name), this customized version of the initial screen appears automatically when you navigate to it.

If you created a temporary screen variant for a transaction, the default version of the initial screen appears when you navigate to it. You can call up a screen variant by following this next procedure.

Procedure: Calling Up a Temporary Variant

Step 1.	Once you arrive at the initial screen for the transaction, follow the menu path Goto > Variants > Get (Figure 13.11A). Figure 13.11. The menu path for calling up a temporary variant.
Step 2.	The Find Variant screen appears (Figure 13.12) This is a search screen on which you can enter one or more search criteria. You have several options. Enter your name or SAP user ID in the Created by field (A), and the system searches for all the screen variants that you created for this transaction, or Enter part of the name of the variant, preceded and followed by asterisks (*), in the Variant field (B), or Do not make any entries, and the system searches for all the available screen variants for the initial screen. Once you complete this screen, click the Execute button (C). Figure 13.12. The Find Variant screen enables you to find a variant for an initial screen.
Step 3.	The ABAP: Variant Directory of Program RM06BA00 screen appears with a hit list of screen variants that match your search criteria (Figure 13.13). Locate the desired variant and double-click its name to call it up. Figure 13.13. Display a screen variant on this popup screen by double-clicking it. Note: You can arrange this list in the alphabetical or reverse-alphabetical order of either the Variant name column or the Short description column by clicking the header of one of those columns (A) and then clicking one of the two Sort buttons (B) in the upper-left corner of the screen.