SAP ABAP Transaction Variants

- Keerthi vasan .M

-  L&T Infotech

Many times people get struck with some kind of requirements in their SAP ABAP Implementation projects and do not know how to proceed further. One of such requirement is “Changing the layout of the standard screen”. These changes may include hiding the existing fields, display default values, etc., Here comes the need of Transaction Variants for such type of requirements.

This article will provide you what all we can achieve through the transaction variants, and a link is provided at the end of this article which demonstrates step by step procedure to create a transaction variant with example and screen shots.

 Transaction variants are very efficient & simple method provided by SAP for customizing the standard screens according to our business needs and implemented using SHD0 transaction. Transaction variants are actually made up of a set of screen variants. The field values and field attributes for each screen in a transaction variant are stored in screen variants. Transaction and screen variants may be created for all dialog and reporting transactions. Transaction variants may not be created for transactions already containing pre-defined parameters (parameter transactions and variant transactions).

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