- [Instructor] Sometimes, we need to run reports
with the same search criteria over and over again.
Search variants are a great shortcut to do just that.
Let's create one now.
To do this, we'll enter our list of sales orders report
using transaction code VA05.
Let's say we need to run the report on a weekly basis
to see open sales orders in sales organization 1710.
First, we'll enter our sales organization.
We'll scroll down,
and then, our organizational data area,
in our sales organizational field, we'll enter 1710.
Again, we only want to see open sales orders.
So under our selection criteria area,
we'll choose open sales orders.
Now we're ready to save this as a variant.
We'll choose the save as variant button.
First, we need to name our variant.
We'll call this 1710 OPOR,
and in our description, we'll call this 1710 open orders.
Now we'll press save.
We see in our footer that we get a success message
that our variant 1710 OPOR has been saved successfully.
To make sure this works,
we'll clear our sales organization field,
and we'll choose the all sales orders radio button.
Now, we'll call our variant.
To do this, we'll go to the get variant icon,
and we'll choose 1710 OPOR,
and press choose.
We now see that our sales organization
has been repopulated with 1710,
and our selection criteria,
the radio button has been shifted to open sales orders.
We're now ready to execute the report.
Our report results return 20 entries.
We can see in the first column
that the sales organization shows results
are only from sales organization 1710.
Search variants can be a big timesaver
for reports we run frequently
with the same selection criteria.