| Once you create a display variant for a line-item report, you will probably want to use it whenever you execute this same transaction in the future so that you can compare the same data in successive reports. To do this, you must first save your new display variant by following the next procedure. Procedure: Saving a Display Variant Step 1. | Click the Save Layout button (Figure 15.2D) if it is displayed in the application toolbar, or
Follow the menu path Settings > Layout > Save (Figure 15.15), or
Hit the keystroke Ctrl + F10.
Figure 15.15. Menu path for saving a new display variant. 
| Step 2. | The Save layout screen appears (Figure 15.16). It is headed by two tabs, Save as and Save with (A). The first tab is preselected to display the Save subscreen, where a list of other display variants for the same report appears (B).
- Enter a name for your new display variant in the Save layout field (C) of this subscreen.
- Enter a short description of your new display variant in the Name field (D) of this same subscreen.[1]
[1] Yes, this field is wrongly named. Stuff happens, even in the best software.
Figure 15.16. Enter a name (C) and description (D) of the new display variant on the Save subscreen, and select from the options at its bottom (E). 
| Step 3. | Optional: Select the User-specific option, the Default setting option, or both by clicking their selection boxes (E) to place check marks inside them. (Note: Some SAP administrators disable one or both of these options.)
- If you select the User-specific option, the new display variant is stored inside the desktop computer or workstation where it was created, and it can only be accessed by a user working at this machine.
If you do not select this option, the new display variant is stored inside an SAP server, where it can be accessed by other users. This is a global variant, and a good way of sharing your variant with other users.
- If you select the Default setting option, the new display variant appears automatically whenever you run the same transaction in the future.
If you do not select this option, the default variant appears whenever you run the same transaction in the future. To apply the new display variant in this case, you must call it up with one of the next two procedures.
| Step 4. | Optional: Click the second tab to display the Save with subscreen (Figure 15.17). This subscreen lists other customization features that you applied to the display variant, including filters and sorts. They are preselected, and they will be saved as a permanent part of the variant unless you deselect them.
Figure 15.17. Customization features of the new display variant are indicated on this subscreen. Deselect them if you don't want to save them with the variant. 
| Step 5. | Hit the Enter key on your keyboard. The Save Layout screen is erased, and a message appears in the status bar of the output screen that the variant is saved (Figure 15.18).
Figure 15.18. Confirmation that you have saved a display variant appears in the status bar of the output screen. 
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