Follow this procedure to define a new variant of an existing design part. You can use a variant to represent an alternative implementation of a design part or item. For example, a team might develop a product that has two different markets, American and European. To represent those markets, the team creates a set of design part variants specific to each market.
When you define a variant, it will appear at the same level as the original design part with the same part ID and PCS value. For example:
PAYROLL:REPORTS.A;1 (original)
PAYROLL:REPORTS.EUROPEAN;1 (variant)
PAYROLL:REPORTS.USA;1 (variant)
Once you've defined a variant, you can operate on it like any other design part.
PRIVILEGES Create design part
To define a design part variant:
From the Design Part Structure main window, select the design part from which you want to create a new variant.
Click the New button: 
and select Variant. The New Variant dialog box appears.
Enter a name for the variant in the Variant ID field.
Optionally, enter a description of the variant in the Description field.
Click the Attributes tab to specify values for any user-defined attributes for the variant.
Click OK to create the new variant.
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