Variant Management

How to Assign a Variant Wildcard to an Item

  

What to do:

Select Start > Items.

Note

Please note, that this and the following examples are based on the Item and BOM Management example.

Item management

BOM management

Steps 3 through 6 are not compulsory. They were taken in order to avoid changes to the overall structure of the Online help examples.

Select the item ART-1000 EP Ball Pen.
Select Copy > With structure from the context menu.
In the Available relations mask, click OK.
In the automatically selected Item No. field, enter the new item number ART-1000-B.
Save the entry with the button .

Select the tab Bill of Material with the left mouse button.

Select the item ART-1200 Ornamental Ring. This item is replaced by the ornamental ring variant wildcard.
Select Delete from the context menu.
Change to Insert mode with the button .

In the field PNo. enter the item number 60 or accept the default item number.

Click the field Item No.

Click the button .
The item list is opened.

Select the variant wildcard ART-1200-V Ornamental Ring (variant) in the Items mask.

Select Take entry from the context menu.
Save the entry with the button .
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